Hi
Considering that fsck does not finish in a reasonable time, I would advice
you to find out badblocks on the system. If they turn out to be extremely
high in number, you can go for a new HDD straight away. Of course power
shutdowns are very bad and UPS is worth of investment.
man badblocks for more detail. The binary resides in /sbin. Assuming that you
can get up linux. Or reinstall it from scratch and choose to format with bad
block checking...
Bye
Shridhar
On Thursday 01 February 2001 23:39, you wrote:
>
> /sbin/fsck -y -A
>
> It will fsck all your partitions (-A reads from /etc/fstab). Then reboot,
> everything is as good as new. Consider investing in an UPS. Sudden
> shutdowns because of power failures are the most common cause for this.
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