During installation The Redhat 9 file system use ext3 file format by default which means that in the event that the computer was not shutdown properly, when the machine reboot, it is not suppose have any file errors at all.

I am having a problem of when it is not shutting down proplerly, the machine have a large number of file errors.
Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening ?

Linh

Why is the machine not shutting down properly? You don't always get errors after an inproper shutdown but thats what the integrity check is for.

What do you mean by "file errors"? If, during an integrity check, you get a message like "3 orphan inodes deleted" this is normal and is not a file error. If, after an unclean shutdown, some files become corrupt, then you are experiencing some rather severe, and unusual, file errors.

Remember that what you percieve as "file errors" may not be due to an unclean shutdown so much as the untimely termination of a program accessing a file, such as a word processor.

Hi,

I had problems with ext3 fs on my laptop HP zt1195. After using for somedays most of the executable in the /usr partition would core dump. When I reboot it would bring out errors (think inode) in /usr partition and would do apparently fix only to have the same kindda problems after using the machine for some more days. I could be the way that the ext3 behaved due to my hdd controller; remember it is a laptop which means it is probably non-standard.

So I tried Reiserfs and it screwed up my inode tree. I had to rebuild the whole tree. So am with xfs now and haven't had any problems since.

Cheers,
Senthil

If X has frozen up, that doesn't mean you can't shut it down right fyi.

Hit control+alt+F1 to get a fullscreen console, log in as root, and type init 6 to reboot, or init 0 to shutdown.