Basil Chupin composed on 2015-04-06 17:08 (UTC+1000):
jdd wrote:
Basil Chupin composed:
Can anyone please give details on how now to manually check the ext3/4 file system for errors?
not a real answer, but you can still boot a rescue or live cd (if nothing else works)
Thanks for the suggestion.
Apart from the fact that it takes a half-hour to boot the damn Rescue Disk it "cannot find <the drive one wants to work on> in /etc/fstab".
My "rescue disks" are very fast booting and very easy to find, yet another advantage of multiboot HDs. Install first "upgrade" of the first installation as a new installation on a separate / partition, and you don't have to restore from backup, try installing again, or reinstall the old, after finding the "upgrade" fell short of expectations, yet once the new turns out to be an acceptable replacement, the old sits in reserve not hurting anything, and taking up relatively little space on modern giant HDs, waiting for an opportunity to rescue the new. I have one system ready to boot at any time openSUSE 10.0, every openSUSE since released, plus Tumbleweed. Not to say it's right that what used to be possible no longer is, but that seems to be the legacy of started from scratch replacements for things that worked (KDE4 then KDF5 replacing KDE3; systemd replacing sysvinit; dracut replacing mkinitrd; wayland to be replacing xorg; etc.) that FOSS evolution has become. The wisdom of experience is routinely discarded, providing vast opportunities for new bugs and more downtime on account of the "upgrading" necessary to remain reasonably secure in an Internet-accessible environment. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org