[Fedora] Re: Failing drive?

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Lai Zit Seng wrote:

> I'd agree entirely. If your data is precious, immediately do a backup 
> before anything else. Not even reboot. I've experienced several 
> unfortunate cases where the drive seems to work ok inspite of the 
> errors, and then I thought let's see if a reboot would clear the 
> problem... and sadly, the drive didn't survive it.

    I can't do anything without a reboot.  It won't let me log in, not 
from the network nor from the console.  I have to reboot the system 
before I can do anything with it again.

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