On Thursday 02 January 2003 13:13, you wrote:
> Well, here's one I don't quite understand.
> This morning my machine was realllllllly slow it went from being a 1.1
> Gig to a 50 mhz processor. So I decided to reboot it took the machine
> about 8 mins to boot and 9 mins to startx.
>
> All things pointed to a hard drive going bad or was bad. So in
> desperation I decided to boot into rescue mode and run fsck.ext3. Well
> after about 2 hours of fsck.ext3 running I rebooted and now all appears
> to working.
>
> I'm glad I was able to fix it. But now I have this lingering desire to
> understand what/why this might have happened. Note on no boot ups did I
> get any kind of file system checks. Just a reallllllly slow machine.
>
> Any incite into this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mike M.
I won't incite, but I will offer you some insight. It Could be that a journal
write was interrupted, causing some corruption. Good thing it was ext3 and
not another journalling fs, as ext3 has higher capabilities for repair.
Smitty
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