1) What does “create the following file” mean? You only give a short line of text and no other details. What kind of file name or extension? Where saved. etc., etc.

2) Next… “and restart your machine”. Fine, easy, but then what? If the OS isn’t running to find the file or execute the command, nothing happens.

3) Now, I’m a very longtime PC user and Shadetree tech (25 old PCs in the basement). In the above-mentioned DOS era, I would’ve added the new command to the Autoexec.bat or Config.sys for execution at startup.

NO recent Windows user would have the faintest idea how to do that. For a newbie coming into Linux with a possible file error problem, how do we enable the Linux equivalent without reading a command line tome?

I then booted from a Parted Magic system rescue disc. I ran the “fsck” program from the rescue disc, and I gave it permission to fix all problems found, which were about ten or twelve in quantity.

The utility finished, and I was again able to boot from the hard drive. There’s never been an indication of any problem since. I considered it a miracle and was very grateful to not have to rebuild my system.