Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-09 19:57:03, schrieb postid: Again, my apologies, this time for not supplying more complete info. I'm using ext3, running Sarge on an IBM R40 laptop along with Knoppix (hd install) and WinXP (for encrypted DVDs. Why not use libdvdcss2 insteard of WinXP? Note: I had a R40-2328

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-11 Thread postid
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:34:14PM +, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0700, David Fox wrote: On 3/10/08, postid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this a bit of a security breach? Anyone booting my laptop would have potential access to my files. Would a person using this shell have root privileges? You would only be running

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were me, after such a reboot, I'd

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread postid
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, postid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this a bit of a security breach? Anyone booting my laptop would have potential access to my files. Would a person using this shell have root privileges? You would only be running in init=/bin/sh temporarily, long enough to fix the issue, then

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 16:34, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Edit the kernel command line, add init=/bin/sh When the kernel boots, instead of runing /bin/init, it will run /bin/sh and give you a shell, no password required. Isn't this a bit

What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Greetings: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on boot) and before I knew alt sysrq-r -s -e -i -u -b and had

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 10:59, postid wrote: Greetings: [snip] Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or a software problem? Inattentive parents? Republican budget cuts? Sex, drugs

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 08:59:45 postid wrote: Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or a software problem? ext2? ext3? ... If ext2, I'd suggest adding a journal. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on boot) and

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Mike Bird wrote: On Sun March 9 2008 08:59:45 postid wrote: Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or a software problem? ext2? ext3? ... If ext2, I'd suggest adding a journal. --Mike Bird ext3 -- To

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error