Zarked Filesystem

Charlie Ross (s253343@gettysburg.edu)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 02:39:01 -0500 (EST)


Alright... heres a simple one to explain.. but it sounds like it might be a
big problem...

I downloaded wine. I untarred wine. I begane making wine. and it says to
me (on the last step of the make) "Filesystem Full"

I think to myself... "Thats odd... I had pleanty of space yesterday..."
so I begin deleting BIG useless files I know I have laying about... I free
up what I aproximate to be about 15 meg or so....

Then I do a df just to be sure... every single number for my root fs is
negative... (its an ext2 fs btw.)...

So I say to myself again "Oh shit... Maybe I had better remount read-only
and fsck this guy"

I try to remount read/only and the kernel panics... so I reboot, thinking
"Thats ok... It will fsck this drive on boot... no problem"

however as soon as it says "Mounted root device read only" it follows with
"kernel panic: init not found, try init= on command line"...

somwhere in there it says that it thinks that my root partition is an msdos
filesystem...

What happend to my FS?!? can I get it back?!

-Chuck

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