On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:33:57AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the > problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies > with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" and > immediately returns me to the (root) prompt without doing any repairs. > When I try to reboot I get the same problem (Unattached inode, I > believe; I am writing this using my Windows95 OS and forgot to write the > problem down).
You need to umount the partition before running fsck on it. Use your rescue disk to boot into Linux and run e2fsck -rf /dev/your_linux_root And read the fsck man page and the e2fsck man page. > > What do I do from here. Any help much appreciated. > > Albert Hurd > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
