--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Joris, > > I don't know if the business-card iso will work > since I've never used > it. I'm on dialup and it doesn't have ppp support. > The netinst.iso > isn't that much bigger (it just won't fit on a > business card size CD) > and does have rescue mode. > > However, either should be able to give you a shell > where you can run > e2fsck -f. If you really want to exercise the disk, > do e2fsck -f -c -c to > do a full read/write test of the filesystem. This > has the advantage of > forcing the drive firmware to remap any bad blocks > that have cropped up. > Yes, I know, that should happen transparently all > the time, but then > again, shutdown -F should actually force a > filesystem check. > > Doug. >
Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue mode and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root partition. It seems to fix something (giving a warning 'FILESYSTEM HAS CHANGED' or something similar) I'm suspecting the problems I saw were caused by hdparm+udev - I purged udev and reinstalled (and removed a stale /dev/.udev) and disabled hdparm, and no more errors were coming up; I tried reenabling hdparm, but was getting some modules not getting loaded again - so I purged hdparm. I found information online that suggested udev and hdparm together might cause problem ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/27940 ), though obviously in this case it is most likely a misconfiguration issue, not a bug in either of the two programs. Am currently thinking of reinstalling hdparm, though I think I need advice as how to configure it (installing it, or `dpkg-reconfigure hdparm`, aren't giving configuration help) Thanks so far for all your advices so far, regards, Joris ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
