this is probably due to my lack of experience...but i'll post the
question anyway...
I just had my linux laptop lock up...not sure why, but it completely
locked up, so i had to shut it down manually and reboot. On the reboot
I got the message about the drives being uncleanly unmounted and it
prceeded to to a fsck which it then stopped and had me log in and do it
manually.... so I did.
I'm not to experieced with fsck or the file system itself... I have no
idea what an inode is or what the messages are the come up during the
scan. It ask me if i'd like to repair my errors, I said yes to the
prompts... fixing things is always a good thing......right?
So any way, it completed all it's checks and then I was able to boot up
like normal. Now the real fun begins.... alot of my preferences were
gone, and it came up with the default windowmaker desktop... fonts were
back to defaults, my dock apps didn't load, Mozilla is missing filters,
and several other things are no longer setup up.... can someone explain
to me why this happend? and how i can prevent it from happening in the
future?
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