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Originally Posted by ajailaltm
this is for the first time i am using linux forum.
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Welcome to LQ, hope you like it here.
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Originally Posted by ajailaltm
Last month we got the "Run fsck mannualy" on different partition. and the it corrupted the file system.
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What was the partition mounted as?
What was the file system? Ext3? Reiser? Or what else?
Did you properly umount the partition before running fsck (or run fsck from single user runlevel or boot a Live CD)?
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Originally Posted by ajailaltm
do i need to run fsck with any specific options.
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Usually 'fsck /dev/somepartitionname' will do ('fsck /dev/sda2').
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Originally Posted by ajailaltm
do i need to take a backup prior to doing fsck? i am new to linux. can you please tell me the command to backup a filesystem in suse linux ?
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You need to make backups if you want to ensure you don't lose data.
What you backup depends on what is crucial to you. For home users that would be minimally /home and /etc.
Where you store backups depends on what resources you have (CDROM drive, external disk or networked storage), what your backup scheme will be (daily incremental, weekly, etc, etc), what the risk is of losing the backup (physical medium damage, bit rot, inadvertent deletion etc, etc) and how fault-tolerant the medium is (think tape vs disk drive vs CDROM). How you make backups depends on your needs. You could simply backup /home like 'tar -cjf /mount/external_disk/home.tar.bz2 /home' or use 'rsync' (also works efficiently with remote or LAN machines). YAST or webpin allow you to search for software, try "backup" or else try
http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Search.
