Re: [TCLUG:3932] fatal X error

[Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Peter Lukas wrote:

> Hey Neighbor,

Well, not quite a neighbor. I haven't taken a class in a while, but the
sysadmin the in the chem. dept. hasn't booted me off their system yet.

> It looks like you ought to umount the filesystem and run e2fsck to remap
> some of those inodes.  If things get dicey from there, you may want to use
> the badblocks program to fix things a little further although I doubt
> that'll be necessary.

This sounds like what I need to do. I'm afraid I haven't had to delve this
far into the innards of my filesystem before. (I suspect most readers on
the list haven't either.) How can I safely unmount the filesystem and use
these utilties? Do I need to run them off of a floppy disk? I'm a complete
newbie with this "down and dirty" sysadmin stuff.

-Tim

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