Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:28:33 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: init bug / crash recovery |
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Alex Krimkevich wrote: > Well, as it turns out no e2fsck (or any other fsck) exists on the root > floppy. I mounted root partition on /mnt and tried '/mnt/sbin/e2fsck'. > The system answered "/mnt/sbin/e2fsck not found". 'ls -l > /mnt/sbin/e2fsck' produced: > -rwxr-x--- 1 root bin 69252 Aug 8 1995 e2fsck* > It's looking for a shared libary, and can't find it.
> Any other Unix I've worked with provides some way to recover from disk > corruption other than reinstalling the entire system from the > installation medium. I do not see any reason why Linux should be an > exception. > You needed a recovery root disk, it has a static version of e2fsck amoung other things
> The last one, not the least one,if there is a reason why > telinit [0123456sS] should not be used, at least under X, it should > be reflected in the documentation in a very explicit way. I guess > something like : > > "WARNING : YOU CAN MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER BY USING THIS COMMAND" > It souldent mess up ....
> > Alex Krimkevich, > alex@magneton-ra.swmed.edu > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgoten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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