Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:27:33PM +, John wrote: > My /usr filesystem was also file-checked (I think in the normal routine > manner). I haven't seen any reference yet to, the basis on which this is > done, the 'maximal' referred to, and how and where is it set. This can be done using the t

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-20 Thread John
on 19 Sep 99, Oliver Elphick wrote... >My normal approach to this is to run fsck with the -y option, to let it >answer yes to all questions; alternatively, you can answer its questions >one at a time yourself: just say yes every time, because the alternative >is correcting the disk with a binary

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 04:45:43PM +, John wrote: > 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 a

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
John wrote: >Am a newbie thinking things were going quite well, when my psu cut out whils >t >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 >fil

manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread John
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'