Am a newbie thinking things were going quite well, when my psu cut out whilst booting (this I do from a floppy). After changing the psu, booting gets only to dev/hdbx (which contains the root filesystem), and presents error messages saying 'contains filesystem with errors', 'unattached inode 17870', 'unexpected inconsistency - run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)', 'the root filesystem is mounted read-only. To remount it read- write, do --------'.
At this stage root password is asked for, and a prompt '(none):~# appears. Remounting read-write using the commands given results in a warning recommending running e2fsck, and showing the following errors which I do not understand and cannot deal with (Ihave a copy of the e2fsck manual page, but nothing seems relevant):- a. EXT2-fs (device ide0(3,66); ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: wrong free blocks count for group 12, stored = 129, counted =124. b. A similar message except 'in super block, stored =30416, counted =30411'. c. ------- ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: wrong free inodes count in group 4, stored =2134, counted =2133. d. A similar message to c. except 'count in super block, stored =63478, counted =63477. (I have precised the error messages for compactness). Although I had most things configured, I could fairly easily re-install the system form scratch. This, however, means I would still have no experience of what to do should a similar event occur later when I have important stuff on the system. I have a second machine which is being used for this posting and with which I've searched unsuccessfully the newsgroups archives and other sources. Can anyone render assistance (suitable for a keen but computer-illiterate newbie) and also perhaps suggest where I can get more info on the use of e2fsck and the filesystems generally. I shall appreciate any help. John.
