Re: Emergency situation. Need help

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 05/23/04


Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:56:49 +0000 (UTC)

sminchev@yahoo.com (Svilen) writes:

]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.

You have to boot up from a rescue disk-- eg the cdrom -- type F1 when it
says, and then type rescue. Then run fsck /dev/hda1 (assuming / is on
/dev/hda1).
It may be that your disk drive is dying.



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