Re: help_with_fsck

[Matthew Walker <mwalker@silug.org>]

Basically, it sounds ike your hard drive is dying.  Probably about all 
you can do is boot itup and get any really important stuff off of that 
drive before it croaks altogether.  As far as the missing files, 
hopefully you have backups or they were either part of the original 
installation or unimportant... if they were important, sorry :-(

I would definitely get another hard drive and move everything over ASAP

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Michael C. Sullivan wrote:

> 
> My system is down. I am not at all knowledgable about
> system administration. We (Math Dpet at SIUC) do not 
> have technical support staff. Here is what has happened:
> 
> Event 1)
> While taring a file I got this message:
> 
> Message from sysloggd@nkrs465 at Mon ...1997
> nkrs465 kernel: kernal panic: EXT2-fs panic
> (device 03:03): ext2_write_inode:
> unable to read i-node block-inode=87841,
> block=35227
> 
> Further, all files and directories are now read only.
> 
> I rebooted and ran fsck. I followed the default options
> and the system came up ok, but several files where missing.
> 
> Event 2)
> While compressing a postscript file I got the same error
> message from the kernal.
> 
> I tried rebooting and running fsck again. This time I was afraid
> to follow the default options. I quickly became lost. It (fsck) 
> would keep asking the same round of questions no matter what
> may replies were. I got out of fsck and turned the machine
> off for fear of really messing things up.
> 
> 
> The message is coming from another account at Northwestern Univ.
> Feel free to call me at 453-6517 or to reply by e-mail. I'll
> send out a note when it is fixed. The area code is 618 in Carbondale.
> 
> Mike Sullivan
> Math Dept
> SIUC
> 
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