Jim Foltz wrote: > > 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]> > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Thanks so much. Thaat did the trick! Albert
