[Wolves] fsck problems
s parkes
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jun 13 12:47:01 2003
>From: "Rachael Baylis" <dasrotestier@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Wolves] fsck problems
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:15:18 +0100
>
>I've been having trouble with my computer crashing, and now /home has
>errors.
>When I try to boot up into Red Hat (8.0) it starts scanning then discovers
>"unexpected errors" and drops me to a <Repair filesystem > prompt, telling
>me
>to run fsck manually.
>
e2fsck -f /dev/hda1
replace /dev/hda1 with the partition you are repairing. It might warn you
about running fsck on a mounted system.
>Forgive me for being dense, but I don't know what to do at this point. I've
>tried
>poking around a bit, but can't get anything useful. I'm still a relative
>newbie, really,
>and it's things like this which make me realise how much of one.
>
forgiven ;-)
sparkes
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