>
> >> reconfigure everything each time, spending 10-30 minutes to learn
> >> how to use fsck and print out the manpage is nothing. That was
> >> my main point. I'm just trying to offer help to the real
> >> solution thats all. Nobody has to follow it.. ;o)
> >>
> >
> >Knowing fsck is useless because the real problem is that it gives you
> >messages like "inode 43200 has such problem do you want I do this?".
> >Now hhow do you know what is inode 43200? You are not in normal mode
> >with a process controlling the terminal so CTRL-C and CTRL-Z are
> >unavailable and that means you cannot suspend fsck and use find to
> >know what is this inode. In addition the partition is not even
> >mounted. All you can do is answer blindly.
>
> No, there are other things you can do too. It requires that you
> know more about the filesystem however. If you truely don't know
> the filesystem and what to answer, then it is guesswork. What do
> you expect from guesswork? As long as you use ext2, or other
> filesystems (most?) that aren't journalled, if you have power
> outages or similar problems you will have fsck running. If any
> problems arise, you either know what to do, or guess, or both.
>
> fsck is only one tool, debugfs is another, the latter requires
> deeper fs knowledge however. If one finds themselves frequently
> experiencing corruption problems, it might pay to learn the
> filesystem internals. A good day or two's reading I believe
> should give plenty of info to handle most situations. There are
> several howto's, and on the web there are ext2 documents by Ted
> T'so I believe, and perhaps others.. I've got a few kicking
> around. ext2 isn't that hard to understand, although I'm a bit
> rusty on it right now since I haven't had to use debugfs in over
> 3 years. ;o)
>
Problem about reading for a couple days is that this implies user's
job is knowing everything about system administration. This is
possible if eiuser is a consultant or user is a system administrator
in a big compnay so there are hundred people around user going with
the task of making money for the company. If company is three of four
persons or if user is a private individual this kind of "learning
overhead" is unacceptable (no time left for real work).
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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