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BruceG wrote:
> I popped a machine in my 15 year old son's room a few weeks ago. Did the 
> "never shut it off by hitting the power switch" talk. Well, he couldn't start 
> it up yesterday, just hung in the middle of the boot sequence.
> 
> Booted off a Knoppix CD. Mounted the hard disk to look at it. Unmounted it and 
> did a "reiserfsck /dev/hda2 --check". Hmmm, return code of 2, seriously 
> hacked up file system. Did the "reiserfsck /dev/hda2 --rebuild-tree" and 
> crossed fingers. 
> 
> Back up and running. Phew!!! I've been doing backups on my main desktop, but 
> haven't yet set up backups on that machine. Think it's time to try Mondo on 
> Debian Testing. Just have to figure out NFS. Ouch. Think I'll back up his 
> desktop to the main desktop using NFS, and continue backing up the main 
> machine to tape.
> 
> So, moral of the story:
> Don't hit the power switch!!!
> Learn those file system test and repair commands (I leafed through a few pages 
> in two books to find relevant information)
> Figure out and DO those backups from each machine
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