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Strange...
Advice: Don't try tricks someone recommended on the Ubuntu forums.
Hmm too bad dj gave me all sorts of help
Campers should be impaled, roasted over a fire, all hairs plucked out, and set on fire.
...I just told you how not to become an admin...
And anyways, now I have backups.
I can't help you with the computer, but I strongly advise against wearing plaids with stripes. Also, if urinating outside, never pee into the wind. Best of luck.
Plaid with stripes is at the bottom of my "wear this!" list, and I happen to whizz inside, but thanks anyways.
Unix? MEH! Do you use FreeBSD or something? Back off, Daemon's spawn! And besides, the same thing would've happened on any kind of Unix. I'd like to see your little Beastie make a disk repairer out of thin air...
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I would, but like I said, I can't even log on. How can I...
...oh...
I have a DSL Live CD (2.4), do you think that would work? I also have Knoppix 5.0.1 w/ Kernel 2.6.17.
Should I just:
sudo fsck /dev/hda3
?
EDIT: I tried exactly that, and it said it was clean
. Any more help?
Last edited: Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 3:37:03 PM
It has QtPartEd. I've used it before. And I checked the menu.lst, and it reverted my edits.
And as for what I did:
Well, he warned me...
Did you read all posts in that thread?
Re: HOWTO: Tweal your ext3 filesystem for a performance boost
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Whoa, I knew I had damn small linux on a usb-stick for a reason.
System no more booted and gave errors "read only filesystem". Got it back running by undoing the changes but I couldn't find any typos or anything in either fstab or in menu.lst. Unless the fstab line for the filesystem needs more options than these?
Quote:
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime,data=writeback 0 1
Maybe that helps? There are a few answers to that one too for example
I had the same problem.
Another way to rescue is to reboot into recovery mode, when it gets you to the CLI type:
Mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdXX /
HdXX being your hard drive partition. This will allow you to edit the fstab and menu.lst to undo the chnages.
Now if I could just work out what's going wrong, time for bed me thinks...leave it until tomorrow.
Last edited: Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 4:40:24 PM
It doesn't. That line isn't there anymore. I said before that Ubuntu reverted the changes.
Maybe this works?
When it gets you to the CLI type:
Mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdXX /
Thats what everyone says fixes it...
I already tried that, and no luck. It doesn't fix anything, it just mounts your disk so you can edit some files.
I can boot from it, but I can't log in because something's wrong with the partition itself. And for the nth time, THE MENU.LST AND FSTAB FILES ARE RESTORED ALREADY!
Dunno; if it was, you know, one of those other systems the line would look like: sudo fsck_hfs -l /dev/disk0s3
With "disk0s3" being the startup disk (first one in the list) determined by df -hl
Yikes. We have the good fortune of having a startup disk with disk utility shipped with the computer.
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Hehe... The mac users are trying to get you to switch DJ. Ignore em'!
Luckily enough, I know that HFS is the Mac filesystem. They don't stand a chance. :)
UPDATE: I've got my sys working at text level, but I need to reinstall X for it to work graphically- my whole /etc directory was wiped.
DJ for t3h winnar! I installed FC5 on my wiped disk with all my files backed up, and everything's back to normal.
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My hard disk is a wreck. I tried some trick someone recommended on the Ubuntu forums, and now my partition is read-only. Basically, I can't do anything with my old sys. This might be the last time I sign into the forums for a while. I have a backup plan, but with slim odds of success and no backups. Like IM once said: "Not having a backup guarantees you'll slip up somewhere. That's Linux karma. Tux might look cute, but he's a vengeful little b*****d."
Until next time, if there is one,
DJ