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From: dr john halewood <john@frumious.unidec.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Compaq Alpha DS10 - Kernel 2.4.18
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:16:05 +0000
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On Tuesday 09 April 2002 11:19 am, Oliver Pitzeier wrote:
> Hi all!
> [...]
> OK, I did so... fsck -y /dev/sda1 -> Works perfectly. After
> fsck has corrected more than 1000 errors I'm able to
> reboot the machine.
>
> And than: MY SYSTEM IS NO LONGER BOOTABLE. It's totally
> currupted...
> Are there any alpha-users in this list? :o))))
$uname -a
Linux frumious.unidec.co.uk 2.4.19pre1 #2 Wed Feb 27 14:45:16 GMT 2002 alpha 
unknown

Yup.  Not had any problems despite a series of recent powercuts (including 
one where the mains voltage dropped from ~230V to ~150V), but did have very 
long fsck()s afterwards. So I gave up and went to ext3 - all it takes is 
kernel support and a quick tune2fs -j /dev/XXX ;-)

cheers
john
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