On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:30:56 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I'm running debian unstable with a 2.6-test9 kernel using an ext2 root > filesystem.
Thats why Ext3 is recommened. > Any idea what caused this? Probably the bad shut down. Journalled filesystems are meuch better able to deal with this than Ext2. > Is the filesystem simply corrupt? Possibly. > Is there anyway to fix it? Sometimes. If the only thing that has been damaged is a few files of little significance you might be OK. Running "fsck -f" in single user mode a couple of times might help. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Lumping configuration data, security data, kernel tuning parameters, etc. into one monstrous fragile binary data structure is really dumb." - David F. Skoll -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
