It's not *common* for numerous fs errors to pop up, but easy to
happen. If, for example, the power goes out or your HD parks while doing a
find, etc... (hd not cleanly unmounted, that sort of thing). And yes, it
really could have recovered, depending on the data and the drive, etc. The
extended 2 fs is actually pretty interesting, and impressive,
comparatively. Check it out sometime :)
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"I don't remember yesterday. And today, it rained."
On 8 Jun 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
>
> For some unknown reason my machine reported numerous filesystem errors on hdb6
> upon boot and it dropped me into a shell for repair. After poking around a bit
> I tried running 'e2fsck /dev/hdb6', it listed umpteen things it was correcting,
> and it seemed to have all worked. The next boot was clean.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) This is the second or third time this has happened to me. Is it common for
> gross filesystem errors to happen as a matter of course?
>
> 2) Given the number of errors it found, could it really hasve recovered? All
> does seem well but I'm still not comfortable.
>
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