Evening Reading

So hopefully a few of you guys have noticed the little opinion/analysis thingies showing up in a few news items. As we get a bit more comfy with...

So hopefully a few of you guys have noticed the little opinion/analysis thingies

showing up in a few news items. As we get a bit more comfy with things I'm sure they will

show up more often assuming we have something worth while to add. The idea being to add a

bit of a knowledgeable analysis to things as they happen. Faylor talking about EA

publishing on Steam or Blake talking about console makers and their budget title

approaches, etc.

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Lastly, the new iPhone firmware changed my 3G logo and I dont like it. I'm rolling

back.

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From The Chatty
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    September 12, 2008 6:37 PM

    repost for halp

    shack linux experts, plz halp. I did something stupid. I ran fsck.ext3 -n -v /dev/sda2.
    but sda2 was mounted. since I had the -n switch, I figured nothing bad would happen. I was wrong.

    I need the data from 1 of the home dirs. I've since booted a knoppix cd and ran fsck.ext3 -y /dev/sda2 and now it mounts. but the home dir is completely empty.

    am I just plain fucked at this point?

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      September 12, 2008 6:43 PM

      is there a directory called /lost+found, and does it have stuff in it?

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        September 12, 2008 6:44 PM

        sorry. forgot to say I did fine 1 dir in there. but its not everything.

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      September 12, 2008 6:44 PM

      fsk'ing a mounted drive will hose your filesystem :( you can check in "lost and found" you might be able to recover from some shit, but I would say i hope if its a production machine you have some backups :(

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        September 12, 2008 6:48 PM

        even with the -n switch? I figured the whole 'make no changes to disk' wouldnt harm it.

        and yea, I'll survive. but getting these files would be VERY helpful to the amount of work I'll end up doing if I dont :(

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        September 12, 2008 6:56 PM

        funny enough the fsck.ext3 man page says -n opens the file system read-only, but I'm going to guess it's lying

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