Emergency situation. Need help

From: Svilen (sminchev_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: 22 May 2004 22:53:27 -0700

Hi,

I am novice in Linux.
I don't know what I did with my Linux RH 8.0 but here is what happens
when I boot up the system. Please, let me know what I should do in
this situation. I'm new to this and if you care to answer please
explain as you're talking to someone who doesn't know much of Linux.

EXT3-fs error (device ide3(34,4)):ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read
inode block - inode=3457096, block=6914056

And then further down I get:

Checking root filesystem
/contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Error reading block 1441798 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read)
while doing inode scan.

/:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p
options)

So, obviously I should run fsck, but I don't know with what
parameters.

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