With my Debian installation I have become accustomed to power brown-outs here on the mountain. I perform without benefit of a net or a UPS (which so far has been out of my price range). I find the need to frequently run fsck -- that is File System Check. Try man fsck for details. But basically you run it against each partition. fsck /dev/hda1 fsck /dev/hda2 fsck /dev/hda3 fsck /dev/hda6 Was the routine on my last installation. hda4 was a divvied up into 5 and 6. running fsck on it produced errors. As did running it against /dev/hda5, which was the swap partition. This command requires tending, it will ask you if you want to fix the errors it finds. Running man fsck will reveal the options available, including one which answers yes to all prompts. It was useful to keep me going, but could not prevent the frequent brown outs from taking their toll. That 40gb drive died just a few weeks ago and the system had to be rebuilt. -- Hugh At 01:37 PM 9/28/03 -0400, you wrote: >Ok, like an idiot i've turned off my linux computer with out doing shutdown. >My friend did this, and got a root prompt after his file system was shown to >be bad. Assuming next time I try to boot into linux next time, and myne is >found to be bad, is there anything like scan disk that can fix it? Note I'm >runing red hat 9, and i don't want to reinstall. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
