On Wednesday 07 January 2004 00:27, JoeHill wrote: > > > It seems reasonable to me that corrupted files on the HDD could > > conceivably cause this behaviour. How do I check the drive for > > problems, or am I barking up the wrong tree? I noticed > > occasional reports of "spurious IRQ on 8259a - IRQ 7" in the boot > > screens - relevant? > What filesystem are you using? I understand that the fsck is only necessary for ext2 filesystems, as journalling takes care of the things that fsck would be looking for. The advice I was given was never to say 'yes' to it if you run a journalling fs. The journal would be restored and everything would be OK.
If there are other errors, then they could be dealt with separately. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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