Re: Root partition on ext3 totally damaged (total frustration)

From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:38:25 +1300

In article <2tnh7kF224c9aU1@uni-berlin.de>,
 Massimiliano Adamo <maxadamo@iol.it> wrote:

>fsck says immediately that there are thousands of file damaged, and I
>have to use "-p" option to autocorrect, but there are too many
>incosistences and "-p" doesn't work. I try "-y" and it works fine.
>I wait for all operations to be finished, I reboot the system, and the
>system doesn't restart anymore (init not found and so on. before reboot
>I understood that there were thousands of file damaged: libraries and
>lot of binaries).
>
>What can I do?

Speaking as someone who has personally suffered 4 hard disk failures in
the last 5 years, as well as witnessed clients having several more over
the same time, let me say honestly and brutally that if you don't BTFU,
then you deserve everything you get.

If that's not clear, let me say it again:

Back The *** Up.
Back The *** Up.
Back The *** Up.