<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Thanks for that Camilo.<br>
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I'm trying to save the particular partition that is causing the problem as you suggested. However, when I do:-<br>
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ron@ron-desktop:~$ sudo cp /var /media/Win98/BackupFolder<br>
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I
am unable to save some of the files due to not having permission. How
can I give that permission? 'sudo' followed by my password is not
enough.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Ron<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 12/6/08, Camilo Mesias <i><camilo@mesias.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Camilo Mesias <camilo@mesias.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Unexpected inconsistency<br>To: ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk, nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Thursday, 12 June, 2008, 11:51 PM<br><br><pre>Hi,<br><br>from what you pasted it looks like there is minor damage to a<br>partition with the OS in it. I don't know if you have a separate<br>partition with your personal files in it. I say it's minor because the<br>system was able to come up after you pressed Ctrl-D.<br><br>What next? If you're being cautious you'd back up any personal info,<br>just in case you lose anything else. Then at the maintenance shell<br>investigate further or repair the FS.<br><br>You could try to just see the errors on the FS with:<br><br> fsck -n /dev/hda7<br><br>Or
you could try an interactive repair:<br><br> fsck /dev/hda7<br><br>Or the 'don't ask me, just fix it now' option:<br><br> fsck -y /dev/hda7<br><br>In the worst case the 'fix' could scramble the rest of the partition,<br>or could remove files that would mean you have to reinstall Ubuntu.<br>That's why it's wise to backup while you can.<br><br>Post another message if you get stuck, I've based the options above on<br>Fedora's fsck but it might be different for Ubuntu. Good luck!<br><br>-Cam</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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