Re: Emergency situation. Need help

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 05/23/04


Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 06:35:19 GMT

On 22 May 2004 22:53:27 -0700, sminchev@yahoo.com (Svilen) wrote:

>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.

If you know the partition, subst as appropriate for /dev/hda1
        fsck -t ext3 -V -r /dev/hda1
The -t just makes sure ext3 is specified, the -V is for verbose, and
-r will prompt for repairs

If you don't know the partition number, then you can use this to check
all systems listed in /etc/fstab
        fsck -t ext3 -V -r -A



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