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> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> 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
I think we've already said this. The filesystem checkers on Linux are not fit
to be used by amateurs. Almost nobody on this list knows enough to make
educated replies to the questions asked of them in manual mode.
I cane to Linux from OS/2. It never required that one answer such questions,
though it did leave some pieces for the user to inspect and discard.
Before PCs were invented, I used IBM mainframes. The OS family of operation
systems (and the family started out in the 1960s) don't even have a program
equivalent to chkdsk. Short of a failed disk drive, I've never heard of a
catastrophe sufficient to need one (and if we'd had one during some of the
years I used them, I'd have been sent to fix it).
I've also outlined one of the major failings of even the most current backup,
so I won't repeat THAT.
btw I happened on an 11-year-old computer magazine last night. Tape drives for
PCs are cheaper now than they were then when just about anyone who sold disk
drives also sold tape drives.
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