Problems following a non-gracefull shutdown

[John Summerfied]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>What filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are supposed to handle this 
>>pretty well and it's a very long time since I had a problem with them. 
>>OTOH some others (and I don't want to cast nasturtiums) have less 
>>stellar reputations.
>>
>>In any event, booting your rescue CD and running a filesystem check is a 
>>good start. I'm a little torn about recommending a read-only check - it 
>>sounds conservative, but it won't fix the problem. OTOH, a rw test 
>>(necessary to fix it) also has the possibility to make it worse.
> 
> 
> I understand that there is no such thing as a read only check (or even a
> read-only mount) with ext3fs although if you know what you're doing,
> you *can* mount it as ext2fs "really-read-only".

e2fsck -n

Roy didn't what filesystem he's using, the rest of can either speculate 
or resist the temptation.




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