Small Detail Results in A Big Disaster

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Dear friends:
Glad you read this post,and I come to tell you a experience I had with the openSUSE.
The day before yesterday,my system suffered a file-systen corruption,which was so serious that it ruined my openSUSE.
Then I decided to reinstall openSUSE.However,when installing,it occured a fail when setting a mount point to my NFS disk,then it rolled back.
OK,I just do it again.I turned off my computer,started,on the screen,it read “Error loading operatin system”.

“Just tried twice”,I thought.But it gave me a depression.I can boot neither openSUSE nor windows XP.
Repairing did nothing helpful,and only thing I could is enter the windows install CD,then came to a new world of my computer.
All my data is lost,even my homework–4 programs which cost me 2 days.When I explored the “new” system,I found that some of computer games which run well on the former platform,could not retain the same performance.

Dear friend,all I want to say is “Must unmount ext3 file system before shutdown,and do fsck as frequent as possible to ensure your file system health.Never repair or reinstall your system before any serious consideration even,in openSUSE,reinstallation is so easy.” .

Best regards

Hongbao Chen
P.R.China

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Bad, bad…i often hat some problems with windows, but never with linux. Anyway its better to kick out windows of your it-life…than you don t need 2 days for new installation! :wink:

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And, as has been said a million times, backup your files regularly. Murphy has a way of knowing when to kill your hardware, the day before you were going to do that backup you were putting off for months.

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> Dear friend,all I want to say is “Must unmount ext3 file system before
> shutdown,and do fsck as frequent as possible to ensure your file system
> health.Never repair or reinstall your system before any serious
> consideration even,in openSUSE,reinstallation is so easy.” .

but, you missed the first TEN rules:

  1. Backup.
  2. Backup.
  3. Backup.
  4. Backup.
  5. Backup.
  6. Backup.
  7. Backup.
  8. Backup.
  9. Backup.
  10. Backup.
  11. unmount disks before shutdown (click, log off > shutdown and WAIT)
  12. etc
  13. use S.M.A.R.T to monitor disk health…
  14. reboot/reinstall is great for MS software, not so much for
    Linux–so, THINK before you leap.

very little to ZERO can be recovered from a format/install…a LOT of
data can usually be recovered from a file system corruption…it just
takes time, patience and the right tools…

–
decorated_warrior