linux reference books

[ts_2]

1)what linux reference book is the best for a beginner?
2)i still dont understand about the solution of "unexpected consistency, run fsck manually". Can you explain it in details? Im using red hat 7.2 and an ext3 filesystem.

[Oren Amit]

Hi,

1) A handy reference book I use is "Linux in a nutshell" from O'reilly. I know that "Running Linux" is also recomended (also from O'reilly).
2) Unexpected inconsistency's happen when:
a. The disk has bad blocks.
b. The disks where not unmounted properly. (i.e. pressing the reset / power switch.
In order to fix the problem you need to unmount the file system and run /sbin/e2fsck -pf /dev/
This will fix the problem.

Hope this helps.

[Greg Carlson]

ts.

Here are some Great Free references for linuxnewbies!

http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.html

http://new.linuxnow.com/tutorial/fs/fs8.html

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/shells/basic.html

http://www.google.com/linux

Ciao,
Greg

[Mark Fenton]

I like Running Linux from O'Reilly. It contains a very good, new-admin-focused presentation. It's quite readable, too.

For info on specific commands/procedures, I use the Linux Documentation Project website, among others:

http://www.linuxdoc.org
http://www.tldp.org

Check it out.

Mark