Re: [tlug] Has my machine been cracked?

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

I think it's "e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/sdaX" (replacing /dev/sdaX with the real device) that you want, but I would do some googling first... 

I've gotten that same eror in the past and it was always due to having to hard boot the machine when X was freezing it.  I switched to a journaling filesystem (and dumped the 3D stuff that was crashing the box) and didn't have any more trouble. 

Even if it dies, you may not be out of luck - I just had a partition die horribly and had to re-create the inode table doing a kind of format (forget the command, but it had the '-S' flag) that was recommended to be used as a last resort.  I was able to bring it back and copy everything off to a different disk.  
I'd advise copying *anything* you need off that disk as soon as you get it mounted and forever eye that disk with suspicion.  

Good luck - 
Jim



On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:54:00 +0900
YAMAGATA Hiroo <hiyori13@example.com> wrote:

> > 
> > > I don't know what to type after the prompt to repair the filesystem.
> > 
> > Why not do what it just told you to do and run fsck manually?
> 
> Good advice. You see, your;
> 
> (Repair filesystem)1#
> 
> is a shell prompt. You are expected to type in a command there.  maybe
> you can try some familiar commands like "ls" or "pwd" there, to see
> what's going on. When you feel confident, type "fsck" there, and see
> what happens.
> 
> I don't know why you feel your machine has been cracked. It's probably
> some corrupt file or some disk error. 
> 
> Best,
> Hiroo
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