From: u1086aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu (11086) Subject: Re: Some Linux problems---solved Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 03:49:09 GMT
In article <C8yAFK.5yq@warrior.uucp> erc@warrior.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>Matt Welsh (mdw@TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
>: In article <1993Jun21.005149.19924@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu> u1086aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu (11086) writes:
>
>: > And despite
>: > what a previous poster said, it really did say bad filesystem. Our
>: > resident Unix (but not Linux) guru who helped sort out the TCP/IP
>: > mess saw it and said I had to re-install.)
>
>: Interesting. I just looked through the entire code for the ext2fs, and
>: can't find any error messages about "bad filesystem" or any permutations
>: thereof. I did find one for "unchecked filesystem" and "bad directory".
>: But then again, you don't mount a directory... :)
>
>It says "mounting unchecked filesystem". If your "guru" says that you have to
>re-install, he's not much of a guru, is he? He clearly doesn't know what he's
>talking about.
No, obviously I don't what I'm talking about. It has been three
months so I can't rember exactly how it went, but after some fooling
around with it (and looking at the documentation),
he decided that it really was trashed, and needed to be reinstalled.
Probably what happened was he saw "unchecked filesystem", tried to fix
it for me using fsck as it said the documentation (and apparently is
the way you do it on any Unix system), and it told him the system was
filesystem was trashed. Oh shit, I keep forgetting we were supposed to
know ahead of time that it was e2fsck that we were supposed to be
running!
You clearly jump to conclusions.
>
>: "Carefully reading the documentation" does not mean that you have to
>: pedantically follow it. As with every UNIX system, there is a lot that you
>: have to figure out as you go along: the docs can't tell you everything.
>: And, yes, the docs are incorrect or innaccurate at many times: Linux develops
>: very rapidly! :)
>
>After all, Linus isn't for weenies. :)
>
>: >My point is the same as it was at first, if you want a system that you
>: >set up in an hour, **be sure everything is done correctly**, and get to
>: >work on immediately, IMHO COHERENT is the one.
>
>Not at all. I reinstalled Linux on a trashed root filesystem in under an
^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, but novices that have never installed cannot expect to do this.
THat has been my point all along (if you would bother to *read* the
comments.
You guys are incredible. Anyone who doesn't want to spend all his time
hacking is a weenie. I rest my case.
(This really is my last post.)