Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-10 Thread Jens Guenther
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Fam. Engelen wrote: > After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on > boot: > > --- > /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. > /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). > > UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MAN

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Fam. Engelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following > appears on boot: > > --- > /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. > /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). > > UNEXPECTED INCONS

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 9/1/2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: ** what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (but I am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Robert Waldner
do a telinit 1, umount /dev/hda5, e2fsck -c -C 0 -f -v /dev/hda5, reboot if you run e2fsck several times and there are errors again and again, maybe even each time on different blocks, I would suggest backing up and buying a new disk... that should do the trick (at least for the good blocks on

How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Fam. Engelen
After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot:   --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s).   UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.         (i.e., without -a or -p options)   fsck failed. Please r