OT on :Re: kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot "urgent please" using live CD and need my compuer back.

[steven vollom]

On Sunday 07 June 2009 07:45:52 am Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 17:26, Donn<donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 06 June 2009 17:14:24 stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >> Among the options that were provided by the computer, I chose and
> >> executed 'Repair broken packages'.  Next I chose and executed 'fsck'.  I
> >> was stopped at a certain point in the process, where there was a warning
> >> that if I continued, I could do damage to the partitions.
> >
> > fsck is "File System Check". It seems something went wrong with your hard
> > drive. I am not sure what damage fsck might do, but I have run it often
> > in the past. I think it's worth letting it check and repair your drive.
> > If you have data on that drive that you cannot risk, then you may have to
> > take other measures -- but if you can replace the data, then fsck the
> > drive. I think you will be okay.
>
> I think he got stopped because he was trying to run fsck on a mounted
> partition, which should *never* been done as it really can ruin the
> whole partition.
>
> Running fsck is done by the computer in the default settings every
> 30st start and should ideally let itself run through. This is done
> before the partitions are mounted, of course, so Steven, if you need
> to do a fsck on your system, you should start the PC with a live CD in
> recovery mode, then run fsck on /dev/sda1 (or whatever is the number
> of hard disk partition that you need to check.
> You might have to run it with the auto-repair option, because a fsck
> that has to rewrite a lot will ask you a confirmation on every
> modification. So running fsck with 'fsck -p' can spear you hundreds of
> keystrokes.
>
>
> Regards, Myriam.
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Thanks! you have me laughing again.  I am so happy, because I am realizing 
what you are telling me is becoming a hopefully permanent memory.  Some times 
this stuff is so fun, I just can't help laughing.  Thanks!

Steven