James Wilkinson wrote:
John Summerfied wrote:
What filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are supposed to handle this
pretty well and it's a very long time since I had a problem with them.
OTOH some others (and I don't want to cast nasturtiums) have less
stellar reputations.
In any event, booting your rescue CD and running a filesystem check is a
good start. I'm a little torn about recommending a read-only check - it
sounds conservative, but it won't fix the problem. OTOH, a rw test
(necessary to fix it) also has the possibility to make it worse.
I understand that there is no such thing as a read only check (or even a
read-only mount) with ext3fs although if you know what you're doing,
you *can* mount it as ext2fs "really-read-only".
e2fsck -n
Roy didn't what filesystem he's using, the rest of can either speculate
or resist the temptation.
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