Strange and mysterious Linux crash

Matt Alexander wrote:
>
> VMWare has to be run as root and it was running at the time. AIM also

Why is that?

> runs as root, I believe. The partition table is fine. It's just that
> several important directories are now replaced with files. And without
> /bin/init, I obviously can't boot this box unless I use a boot floppy/CD.
> ~M


I noticed I get filesystem corruption using reiserfs and I have a crash.
One more reboot and it is OK.

George