Greg Wallace wrote: > On Thursday, January 18, 2007 @ 10:06 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: > > >> Greg Wallace wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, January 18, 2007 @ 4:47 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The Wednesday 2007-01-17 at 23:05 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>>>> <sigh> Fix your clock. Let me guess... you left the hardware clock on >>>>>> local time? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Not sure what you mean by "hardware clock". >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> The one you see in the bios setup. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> - -- >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlos E. R. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm running a Dell Optiplex GX260. In the BIOS, the only setting for the >>> clock is a digital clock where you adjust the time manually. There is no >>> option as far as local time vs any other type of time. >>> >>> Greg Wallace >>> >>> >>> >>> >> When you load the system up, you have the option of setting either local >> time or UTC time. I believe that is what he is saying. >> > > >> If the superblock is always saying it is in the future, make sure you do >> a sync before you do a reboot. It is very rare, but it is just to be >> careful. Try to see if it is having the same problem. >> > > >> If you are still having the problem, there is a good chance that the >> sector is going bade. You might want to run soething like Steve Gibson >> Spinrite. In any case, I strongly suggest you make a backup of your >> system, as there is a good chance that your drive is beginning to die. >> > > >> -- >> > > >> Joseph Loo >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > I changed to UTC and the message about the time being in the future went > away. However, I still get a message saying it's doing an fsck. The > difference, though, is that now, rather than taking several minutes to go by > that message it goes by it instantly, so I don't know if it's really doing > an fsck anymore or not. > > Greg Wallace > > > It has been a long time since I worked with fsck. I could be wrong, but I believe it always does a fsck to check for file system consistency.
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