On Friday 10 April 2009 22:13:56 Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / > dev/hda1. > > I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the > failure. > > I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right? > > However, I don't know what options to give it or *what I'm looking > for*. > > The man page is kind of sketchy, and I don't feel encouraged by the > following: > > %fsck /dev/hda1 > fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) > /dev/hda1 is mounted. > > WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted file system may cause > SEVERE file system damage. > > Do you really want to continue (y/n)? > > As always, I'm grateful for any guidance you can give.
1) unmount /dev/hda1 2) rerun fsck That will check for damage to the filesystem. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
