Weird boot problem??

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On 09 Feb 2003 21:09:15 -0800
> Michael Fakaro <mfakaro at telus.net> wrote:
>
> > My kids wanted to play some games so I shutdown, booted into windows
> > and then when they were finished booted back to Red Hat 8. When it got
> > to checking root it said it had errors and forced a check.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Anyway it got through with 2 error on
> > pass 1
> > then finished and now I'm back happily in Red Hat. Any comments on
> > what happened and how I could avoid this near catastrophe (if it was
> > one) in the
> > future.
>
> Appears you posted this almost 9 hours ago and Lonnie hasn't jumped in

Hey, i have to sleep sometime, ya know  :)

> with his XFS chant.  But you definitely want to move you system to XFS
> at the first opportunity.  Check the steps and consider moving. XFS will
> be included in the 2.6 kernel when it comes out.  Move to XFS and say
> goodbye to fsck forever.

I agree 100%.  I think either you are starting to see a subtle hardware
problem, or you hit one of the many ext2/3 bugs out there.

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