[PLUG] Re: Bad shutdown and file system damage

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004,  Ovid <publiustemp-plug at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Yesterday, my FC2 box hung.  And hung.  And hung.  
> [snip]
> 
> I have my FC2 install disks that I can use for a boot disk, but I don't
> know what to do with those, either.  What can I do?  My file system is
> ext2.

The FC2 set may include the equivalent of a standalone boot disk;  I
know RedHat 9 does.  However, even though I run RedHat style distros
on my machines, a Knoppix disk is the best resource for debugging a
wedged machine.  Among other things, it gets me out to the net, where
I can look at web pages and ask folks silly questions.   If it doesn't
run, I can see where it hangs, and if it does, it gives me a working
example of files that I can compare to the ones on my hard drive.  Of
course, I can memtest and fsck with it.

Note that our own talented and brilliant Carla Schroder has written a
dandy article on unwedging a system with a Knoppix disk:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html

I will bring a few of my remastered Knoppix disks to the next advanced
topics.  Perhaps someone can copy some for the clinic, too.  If you 
need a copy earlier, I am in east Beaverton (but have some redeeming
qualities, too).

Keith

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