Just want to say thanks to all of you guru's
Hey all,
I recently had a problem with my computer crashing (second time in two years running, man I love the stability of Linux.) I couldn't shut down my linux box so I ended up on turning it off. Unfortunately my file system got corrupted and it told me to run a fsck manually on my root. I am running Red Hat 7.3 at the moment and I was getting ready to install Red Hat 8.0. But then I did a search to find out some information on fsck as a last ditch effort to see if there was anything I could do to avoid reinstalling and setting up all of my files. Thankfully I found a few that showed how to use fsck. This saved me alot of time, I intend to update soon anyways but right now is really bad since I have a 10 page paper due in English in a week and a day, and a class presentation due this Thursday. Thanks to all of you Guru's and the LinuxQuesdtions.Org for helping me to slowly wade my way through the challenges I face with trying to learn Linux on my own. P.S. Next time I will use the man command to find out more about a command first. I already knew about it but just forgot about it this time. |
I'm thankful as well.
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i'm thankful as well too
by the way, terek, which one do u use .ext2 or ext3? ext3 seems to be more robust to unintended shutdown if u use ext2 , consider to upgrade to ext3, it can be done without reinstalling. |
tune2fs -j /dev/hdx
where /dev/hdx is your partition/device :) I'm thankful too Cool |
NOT ME!! CUZ I AM A JERK!!! :p
no just kidding, thanks for everything ;) |
I wanna thank everybody too. I have faced many problems since I started using Linux and I`ve always found an answer around here.
I`ve been browsing this forum for some weeks now and it has never been necessary to post a question so far... because it was already there (I took very seriously the "run a search before you post"). So, thank you very much guys! GK. |
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search?? what's that?? ;)
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Well my problem happened again, this time when I tried to reboot it It couldn't even boot off of the Hard Drive. When I booted off the disk it said my /dev/hdax (can't remember the number) was busy.
The last time I had this problem my fan on my bios was breaking down and I had to replace it. I think the reason my hard drive is failing and causing me to crash is because my bios is overheating again. So now, the 3 times linux has crashed it is because of a hardware failure, not Linux, in my 2 years running. I am planning on reinstalling (I like formatting and reinstalling because it reinforces what I have learned to set up,) once this semester is over. But I simply can't do that until then. Thanks all. |
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Its great to know that you can easily find your answers your seeking by doing a simple search first. |
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I'm thankful too. I've learned ten things by searching for every one thing I've put as a question. There's a wealth of knowledge here, and I thank everyone who has contributed to it.
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I'm thankful too, I must admit I am guilty of posting sometimes before searching, sorry. For some reason I think my problems are specific and unique. Anyways Thanks, I now have Gentoo up and running, couldn't have done it without the gurus on this and the gentoo forum.
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