Will it won't it?

Is it back to the bad old days with the filesytem going really cranky?

Had a bad crash today. Bit ridiculous because I was only using gnome-terminal.

(I had done some other stuff- I had used gdeskbar which in turn
had opened firefox and beagle-searched the word diet. I am not entirely sure why
firefox was launched but for whatever reason it did it and I moved on to another virtual desktop
to practice the bash tricks I was reading about.)

I was reading some instructions on how to edit commands you can recall from history via
search history keys Ctrl-R. For some reason it wouldn't amend the bit I wanted it just crashed.- nothing would work I had to reboot from the box. I booted back into recovery mode and manually ran fsck after it had done a bit of its own stuff.

It then said reboot now so I entered reboot but it got stuck. I sought out some help
so tried reboot -h which turned out to be the magic command and it got
going again. How long have I been using it? Two months or something - it
was running really smoooth then throws that at the user. It fixed
itself fine -loads of stuff about inides I Had to type y a lot- I was hoping it would get better but another part of my brain was
asking "am I going to have to backup and reinstall again?" That would be really
annoying if it was my only box. I can imagine how a total newbie would feel - in fact I can remember the horror easily. After all its not that long ago.

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