On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 10:50:18 AM -0500, Todd Denniston (Todd.Denniston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote, On 01/18/2008 09:55 AM: >> About the disk, what would the best way to see if it's not working >> properly anymore? > > If you want to keep the file system... and it is ext[23] with > internal journal: e2fsck -fy -k -c -c -v device Thanks to Todd and all the others who gave feedback both on list and privately. I didn't answer earlier because eventually I decided to reinstall from scratch, and after that reconfiguring everything as it was before and catching up with work took a while. Right after install I ran one huge "yum update" and things look good now. I have written down all the tips you suggested, hoping of course to never have to use them :-) One thing I have definitely learned, and that I suggest be included in the official docs is "since Fedora is a test-bed, bleeding edge distro and all that...backup EVERYTHING before EVERY update, no matter how small or harmless it looks. Sure it's a standard practice, but with Fedora (due to its nature and explicit goals, of course, this is NOT a critique) it is more needed than with other distros" Ciao, Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84
