fsck questions...

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:13, Ravi Parimi wrote:

> > 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?
>
> I am not sure why your windowmanager settings got changed - hard to
> believe that it could be because of the crash. Which distribution and
> version are you using? The latest distros(Red Hat, Suse, Debian etc. )
> all give you the option of formatting partitions with a journaling
> filesystem such as ext3 or reiserfs. Journaling filesystems maintain
> transaction logs of all changes being done to a filesystem and are
> better at recovering from crashes than non-journaling filesystems like
> ext2. With a proper plan in mind, you can also migrate your existing
> filesystem to a ext3 or reiserfs.
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Not sure that he wants to use a journaling filesystem with a
laptop...kind of hell on battery life.

It would appear that most of the files in your home directory got hosed
and depending upon what occurred, some of the files might have ended up
in lost+found directory in the root of your mount.

How can your prevent it from happening in the future? Well a journaled
filesystem as suggested might be of some help. Another suggesting might
be to use shutdown now -F[rh] once in a while.

see man shutdown

Craig