What are some things I can do...

[Ergot]

After a power outage occurs to make sure everything is working?

[Sidoh]

After a power outage occurs to make sure everything is working?

checkdisk.  That's really the only thing you have to worry about (other than a surge, perhaps) is the corruption of a hard drive segment because the OS was in the middle of writing to it.

I think. :)

[Newby]

fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.

[Sidoh]

fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.

On Windows, check disk does verify filesystem integrety, right?  At least that's the termonology I'm familiar with.  Is fsck the Linux command to do this?  I'd assume so, but I've never had to do it, so I'm not sure. :)

[Quik]

fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.

On Windows, check disk does verify filesystem integrety, right?  At least that's the termonology I'm familiar with.  Is fsck the Linux command to do this?  I'd assume so, but I've never had to do it, so I'm not sure. :)

fsck stands for file system check. This is in the Linux board, so I'm assuming Ergot's referring to a Linux computer. fsck would be what your instruction said to do, except newby gave the command.

[Sidoh]

fsck stands for file system check. This is in the Linux board, so I'm assuming Ergot's referring to a Linux computer. fsck would be what your instruction said to do, except newby gave the command.

Yeah, I figured out what it stood for, hehe.  I guess it was a stupid question, but oh well.

[iago]

If it is important to do, Slackware will do it on the next reboot.  It knows if a filesystem wasn't umounted properly and fsck's it. 

Other than that, you can just cry about lost uptime.  Not much else...

[Joe]

ext3 looks after itself. If you're using ext2, you diserve to lose data. <3.

[Ergot]

Is ext3 journaling?
Usually after a power outage it does do fsck but this time it didn't so *shrug*. Also when I did try fsck it told me some sort of damage could occur if the filesystem is mounted. Should I ignore that? Otherwise, I don't notice anything wrong with my system. I had a relatively short uptime like 2 hours at the time, so not a lot happened.

[deadly7]

Is ext3 journaling?

Yes.