My friend's PC insisted on root password for maintenance when booting up
(or press a key to continue). Fortunately, my friend sometimes pays
attention to warnings.
I supplied root password.
mount worked.
df did not.
man fsck did not work.
fsck did not give me a list of options. It just took off running.
I manually hit Enter (to answer "yes") to a *lot* of things. It only
found problems on the partition containing /usr (which is one slice of
the only HDD in the system). There are several directories and *many*
files now in /usr/lost+found.
gnome won't load, tho kde seems ok. Firefox won't launch because it
can't find the executable. Thunderbird takes a long time before
silently giving up. yum remove firefox won't remove it.
I'm trying to remember any other problems, but that covers most of it.
I'm going back there sometime tomorrow. Is the HDD unreliable?
Fortunately, she doesn't care about much of the data.
She uses it mainly for internet and printing. And it is running
noticeably slower with fc7 than it was with fc4. I think (like mine) it
is hitting swap. What are the names of the window managers that take
very little overhead?
I'm probably going to get a newer PC for myself. But she doesn't care
about the PC much beyond surfing the internet and probably won't want to
spend the money. She probably won't hesitate to spend it if I make the
case for it. But for her needs, just reducing the overhead will
probably suffice.
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Ralph
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--Stewart Stremler
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