From: Cristobal M Palmer <cmpalmer AT email.unc.edu>
To: unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [unclug] cause for concern?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:28:26 -0400 (EDT)
I'm running Debian and WinXP on a CCI-issue T30 (three years old), and
yesterday I nearly suffered a myocardial infarction. I thought I had a bad
sector on the Linux partition. I could boot up in Windows just fine,
but--needless to say--everything important is on the Debian partition(s).
I ended up booting from a CD (huzzah for Knoppix!) and running e2fsck -y
/dev/hda6.
That seems to have fixed everything.
So my question is this:
Do I need to look into replacing my HD? Should I be frantically backing
everything up (not that I haven't been keeping backups, mind you)? If the
answer to either of these is yes, what's the easy/cheap way?
Thanks, and remember the sage advice of Mr. Wozniak: "Never trust a
computer you can't throw out a window."