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fsck'd

Category: random
Posted on: October 8, 2008 12:46 AM, by Steinn Sigurðsson

[world: /$] root% fsck -f

are you sure? y

checking

6,034,932,778 files, 5,843,314,092 used, 1,253,913,456 free (67 frags, 173 blocks, 54.6% fragmentation)

bad blocks fsck not able to repair

filesystem is NOT clean

BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

/ ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

volume America appears to be corrupted
volume Asia appears to be corrupted
volume Australia appears to be corrupted
volume Europe appears to be corrupted

unrecoverable error

please repair the system manually

[world: /$] root% fsck -f -y
reboot?

system will reboot in 27 days

waiting... waiting.... waiting...


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Oh shit! We made backups, right?

Posted by: foole | October 8, 2008 6:47 AM

Very nicely done. I personally prefer a command line interface for humor over the point-and-click humor of the masses - call me an elitist.

Posted by: Eric Johnson | October 8, 2008 9:37 AM

I sincerely hope you remembered to unmount the world before fscking it, Steinn.

Should've used ZFS!

Posted by: sipior | October 9, 2008 11:34 AM

I would be LOL if I weren't crying so hard.

Posted by: capitalistimperialistpig | October 11, 2008 8:23 PM

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