Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 The disk in a laptop I recently acquired began making clunking noises; not a good sign. I had installed Debian from a 150MB netinst CD about a month earlier, and had just installed it again onto the swap partition from a 50MB "business card" CD. I thought some bits might have been twiddled during the several installs I did, so wanted to do a full poweroff.
On reboot, I decided to run fsck to test the disk, give me some idea of its current reliability, and to fix any errors that had accumulated, especially if the problem was just newly introduced. First I tried fsck -fv /dev/hda4, which gave the expected big warning, since that was the mounted root (/) partition. Then I tried fsck -nfs /dev/hda4, which seems to do what I wanted. I got a warning about "not fixing back block count, readonly..." I continued with mount -oro,remount /, which allowed me to run fsck -fv /dev/hda4, like I tried initially. Since I didn't get a big warning, I didn't anticipate any trouble. When I rebooted I got a warning about an /etc/ rc script exiting "outside the normal program flow". A bug is on its way. When I rebooted into multi user mode, fsck claimed that the filesystem had not been checked in some absurd number of days (49xxx), and also that the last mount (?) time was in the future. So, it fscked, then rebooted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
