On Friday 03 March 2006 19:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-03-03 at 09:59 -0000, António Rodrigues Tomé wrote:
Known problem.
Reboot with rescue cd (installation cd), rescue system, do a "reiserfsck" on that disk.
many thanks! It worked Although I'mnow worried with the integrity of my harde drive.
It is a know "problem" or "feature" of reiserfs quick boot up filesystem check that it doesn't catch all problems. One of the symptoms is what you described.
If you want to check you drive for problems, have a look into SMART - try smartctl (read man page first). It can test your disk at the same time you use the system (almost) normally.
once again many thanks. I'll try SMART -- António Rodrigues Tomé artome@ubi.pt <---official e-mail address artome@gmail.com <---alternative security e-mail address http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt/~artome http://www.cgul.ul.pt/curric/cgul_tome.htm