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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Tal davidson wrote:

> /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALY
> fsck returned error code reboot now!

> The system logged on read-only, manual fsck runs don't do or show
> anything.
did you check for physical defects too? i.e. bad sectors?

> What do I do now? Am I in for another long session of installing
> Slackware, or is there something I can do?

make sure fsck does a thorough check of the disk and back up oftenly.

> 
> Is this a fuck in Linux? in Slackware? Actually, this kind of thing
> happened to me a month ago, and I reinstalled the entire system.
> (and I make sure every time to shutdown the system before closing the
> computer - so this is not due to closing the machine prematurely)

no other reason for fs inconsistencies I know of (help me here, people?),
but reinstalling the system is an overkill...

anyway, if you MUST reinstall the system, put on RedHat next time :-)))


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