Re: Hard drive problems

Tam wrote:


Thanks for your reply Jerry.

Im 99.99% sure theyre ext3.

So it looks like its gonna be fsck. Can you give me some pointers as
to how to use this tool as ive never done it. Do I have to mount
anything in order to run it on /dev/sdb1 for instance. Thanks if you
can do this for me... A, B, C. Im good at following instructions.


Tam, never... ever... fsck a mounted partition. >:'O

Your best bet is "man e2fsck" or "e2fsck -h"

You should use the "-n" switch, until you're sure of what you are doing.
Using "-n" means "just testing..." and nothing is actually changed on the
partition. Once you have the switches figured out the way you want,
eliminate the "-n" switch and sit back and wait for it to complete.
Depending on the partition size and how corrupt it is... it can take quite
a bit of time to finish. Once done, you should be able to mount them as
usual.

I usually use: e2fsck -vp /dev/hdxx


Cheers...





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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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