Re: Corrupt File System
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:32:47 -0500
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:58:38 -0800, Mike wrote:
Hello,
A recent power outage caused a corruption of the root filesystem on my
redhat 9 server. When I try to reboot I get as far as grub> but I can
not get passed this stage. Will running fsck fix the problem? Problem
is I can't get to fsck and I don't have a floppy drive on the server
box (big mistake). I don't have the original redhat disks either (I
know bad). The only peripheral devices I have on the machine are a zip
and cd r/w. Is it possible to save stuff on the drive if I'm forced to
re-install? What are my options in terms of saving data and/or fixing
the filesystem?
Regards, Mike
When you boot, the system should drop you into a recovery mode which will
let you run fsck by hand. If that's not happening you can boot a rescue CD
and then run fsck from there. You can use a modern live/rescue CD to do
this, since your system is Redhat I'd download the Fedora Core 6 rescuecd
and use that,
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/
You should also be able to use the rescue CD to copy off the files you
need to your ZIP drive. I don't know if the Fedora rescue CD brings up the
network (it probably does), but if it doesn't you could use the Unbuntu
live CD which brings up a full system including networking. Copying off
your files to another machine is better then using a bunch of tiny ZIP
disks.
In the unlikely event that you do need to reinstall your system you should
take the opportunity to get rid of Redhat 9, which is long dead, and put
something modern on your system. It's pretty clear that you prefer to keep
the same system for years so the best choice for you would be to put
CentOS 4 on that box. CentOS is the free clone of Redhat Enterprise Linux
which has a very long life.
.
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