On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
>What has happened here (my best guess anyhow) is that your system was
>rudely interrupted by some sort of crash while in the middle of writing
Mine happened once (on my old setup) when the power went out in the
middle of a Cnews expire.
>it the root password, go into single user mode, and run fsck from
>there. You might want to man fsck first.
Well, you're essentially in single user mode (i.e., this happens during
the start up procedure) and so you can just do the fsck at the time
you get to the provided shell prompt. It is important to just say 'fsck
/dev/hda1' (or whatever device is affected) -- that is, don't use any
extra options.
>Note that you may have problems here since you only have one Linux
>partition. I don't know if fsck will refuse to check the filesystem on
>which / is mounted. This is a good reason to pay attention to the bits
Well, at the time it happened to me, I was running linux on a single-
partition setup, and it worked just fine. It did (as I recall) take a
rather _long_ time (with a lot of disk activity) before it got
done.
>in the install manual where it recommends splitting your Linux
>installation over several partitions. But that's spilt milk now.
>
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