Posts for: #Ubuntu

Adventures with FSCK

Back-ups are always a good idea… this week I lost two HDs. One on the PC, I was able to recover all the data and transfer it to a remote server. The other, my Ubuntu, Tambaqui of war.

I arrived at work in the morning and saw that the computer was turned off. As the Tambaqui is also a small server, I usually leave it running. I plugged in the fish and the boot occurred normally (I always say that only what was previously working perfectly will give you problems :-), otherwise nobody would come up with that worn-out excuse: yesterday it was fine!). Looking at the files after booting, I saw that there were several files with strange names with ??? and !!!!… a sign of file system problems, but fsck swore everything was okay :-)

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Adventures with FSCK

Back-ups are always a good idea… this week I lost two HDs. One on the PC, I was able to recover all the data and transfer it to a remote server. The other, my Ubuntu, Tambaqui of war.

I arrived at work in the morning and saw that the computer was turned off. As the Tambaqui is also a small server, I usually leave it running. I plugged in the fish and the boot occurred normally (I always say that only what was previously working perfectly will give you problems :-), otherwise nobody would come up with that worn-out excuse: yesterday it was fine!). Looking at the files after booting, I saw that there were several files with strange names with ??? and !!!!… a sign of file system problems, but fsck swore everything was okay :-)

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