Hardy failed

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I was using Hardy when Thunderbird did some odd things. I thought 
> IMAP was the cause. But then using the laptop imap was fine. So I 
> rebooted my Hardy and all heck was caused. It came up and said to run 
> fsck on /dev/sda6 and asked for my root password. I do not have a root 
> password...
>   
Hardy sure has an attitude. It is such a rebel to enable root account 
without your permission.

>     So a Ctrl-Alt-Del got me out and I booted into my 9.04 system and 
> using a terminal I ran sudo fsck /dev/sda6 and it it found a whole lot 
> of errors on that ext3 file system for some reason. But it got done and 
> I am back on Hardy again and Thunderbird is working normal...
>
>     Looks like you should run a check every so often. Not sure how often?
>
>   


Your hard disk has had enough of you and is contemplating retiring for 
good. Please do consider spending more money on your hard disk by doing 
things like buying it a pet UPS, arranging for a girl friend to be its 
lifelong companion, getting it a power tool like a battery backed backup 
cache such as the I-RAM or, if you do not wish to spoil your hard disk, 
you can whip it into behaving by running fsck twice a day.