Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Palmer
>booting from some type of rescue disk > and doing the fsck from it is the most reliable and safest way to deal > with a corrupt root partition. Unless that rescue disk has old filesystem tools on it, then it has the potential to do more damage than good. If you can still boot from the fs going in

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Mankuthimma wrote: Hi, Should I fsck from a Knopix CD or do it from my Knoppix hd install or do it from the Debian command line? Does it matter at all? Best option. Boot from knoppix and fsck the partition # fsck /dev/hdXX Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in rea

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:10:51PM +, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I > use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted > to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unpl

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-16 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, Should I fsck from a Knopix CD or do it from my Knoppix hd install or do it from the Debian command line? Does it matter at all? Best option. Boot from knoppix and fsck the partition # fsck /dev/hdXX Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in read-write mode in orde

Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-16 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Greetings: I'm running an IBM R40 laptop with three systems: Debian Sarge (which I use primarily), Knopix 3.4 hd install, and WinXP. This morning I booted to Knoppix to look at some bookmarks on that system. I forgot to unplug the PCMCIA card modem, so it stopped there at boot. I unplugged it