[Gllug] fsck: 'unable to set superblock flags on /1'

[Garry Heaton]

Just had a freeze while attemtping to delete the contents of a directory on 
Fedora Core 5. Powered off and rebooted then Fedora attempted to repair the 
filesystem but insisted I needed to do it manually so dropped me into a 
shell. It was taking far too long responding to y/n confirmations for 
repairs so I decided to reboot using the Fedora Core 5 Rescue Disk. This 
gave me a /mnt/sysimage shell but I then realised running 'fsck' on a 
mounted filesystem isn't a good idea. So, I rebooted with Knoppix 3.8, 
'umount'-ed the troublesome /dev/hda1 which, curiously, had been 
successfully automounted and was readable. Running both 'sudo e2fsck -p 
/dev/hda1' and 'sudo fsck -a /dev/hda1' produced the same error: '.... 
unable to set superblock flags on /1'. What's the source of this problem? 
What to do?

Garry
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