Quoting Stephen Paul E Florentino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > HELO,
250 Nice to meet you (Sorry: Just a little network-admin humour.) > I've been working on a RH 7.2 box which gives and Input/Output Error > message everytime I try to access important system files, eg inittab and > rc files. I'm speculating that the hard drive is dying or that the files > have been corrupted. That seems likely. Or you could be having hardware problems with your host adapter circuitry. > The / partition which contains /etc was formatted as ext3. I was > planning to fsck the partition but I risk not being able to > boot properly as inittab and other rc files seem inaccessible. If possible, I would attempt to copy as many files as possible across the LAN (if there's a LAN) to another machine. For safekeeping. Then, you can relax a bit, and attempt diagnosis. Some notes on ways to do that: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/kb/20 http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-directory-trees-via-cpio http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-directory-trees-via-tar http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/copying-via-netcat -- Cheers, "This is mad, egotistical, sick, twisted, and stretches the bounds of Rick Moen good taste right off the tongue, past the uvula, and down around [EMAIL PROTECTED] the duodenum. It has other merits, but that should indicate positive interest." -- The Cube, http://www.forum3000.org/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
