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robinturnerNo, that's not the expletive you think it is, it's geek-speak for "file system check". Running fsck is tedious enough, but running
makes watching paint dry look like a Hollywood blockbuster with car chases, explosions and torrid sex scenes. This is my umpteenth attempt - it keeps freezing at different points, leaving tantalising messages like "left 13671 27 sec" at the bottom of the screen in glorious black-on-white. You mean you froze with only 27 seconds to go? Damn you, Hans Reiser, and the horse you rode in on!
To be fair, the Reiser file system is a work of genius, in that unlike other systems, you can switch off the computer without shutting it down and it will almost always boot up again with hardly a murmur of complaint, unlike, say, Windows where you get a blue screen and a snotty message about not having shut down your computer properly (even if it was Window's fault), before Scandisk erases important bits of data. Almost always. This time I got the dreaded "kernel panic" message. Linux users know the terror that this causes. It's at this moment that you imagine all those Windows users you were so condescending to going "Nyeh nyeh, Linux crashes too!" And it's no use trying to explain that this is an extremely rare event and had the machine been running Windows, all data on it would probably be up in data heaven, sitting on clouds and singing algorithms. They won't understand.
Thank god there's no one else in the office at the moment.
reiserfsck --rebuild_tree /dev/hda2
makes watching paint dry look like a Hollywood blockbuster with car chases, explosions and torrid sex scenes. This is my umpteenth attempt - it keeps freezing at different points, leaving tantalising messages like "left 13671 27 sec" at the bottom of the screen in glorious black-on-white. You mean you froze with only 27 seconds to go? Damn you, Hans Reiser, and the horse you rode in on!
To be fair, the Reiser file system is a work of genius, in that unlike other systems, you can switch off the computer without shutting it down and it will almost always boot up again with hardly a murmur of complaint, unlike, say, Windows where you get a blue screen and a snotty message about not having shut down your computer properly (even if it was Window's fault), before Scandisk erases important bits of data. Almost always. This time I got the dreaded "kernel panic" message. Linux users know the terror that this causes. It's at this moment that you imagine all those Windows users you were so condescending to going "Nyeh nyeh, Linux crashes too!" And it's no use trying to explain that this is an extremely rare event and had the machine been running Windows, all data on it would probably be up in data heaven, sitting on clouds and singing algorithms. They won't understand.
Thank god there's no one else in the office at the moment.
