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Re: hdd crashed?



On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote:
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> On Friday 27 April 2001 08:47, you wrote:
> some people here told me to start up in single mode
> on lilo boot promt when you start up and lilo appears simply type single
> then i have scaned my hdd for errors (physical ones i think) with that:
> e2fsck -c /dev/hda3 ;-) this did the job i think
> 
> at last the errors with don't appear anymore ;-)

 If it just failed randomly for no apparent reason the first time, you
should expect it to happen again.  Now would be a great time to upgrade your
hard drive to a large, new, reliable one :).  At the very least, start
making regular backups if you weren't already doing so.

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 Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
 my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE



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