Help: disk problems..
Help!!
I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some
(Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for
Apache was OK, se we re-booted.
At re-boot I now get:
|--------------
| ...
| .. checking root file system
| fsck.ext2: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/hda1
| Could this be a zero length partition?
|
| fsck failed. please repair manually and re-boot. Please note that the
root file system is mounted Read-only,
| ....
|give root password for maintenance.
|---------------
Ok, I go root, and look around. everything seems OK, all files there.
fdisk shows partitions OK:
|------------------
| boot device format size start end
| * /dev/hda1 Extended 1580M 2 785
| hda2 DOS FAT-16 50M 2 27
| * hda6 Linux ext2 1250M 28 662
| hda7 linux swap 250M 663 785
|-------------
a v option to fdisk (check partition table) says: 8249 unallocated sectors
running fdisk from a rescue floppy on /dev/hda6 gives (immediately):
e2fsck
/dev/hda6: clean, 29621/641024 files, 542724/3560288 blocks.
It seems to report this Immediately, no time, no disk work. (???)
I tried re-writing the boot block to the first partition (the one reported
troublesome), /dev/hda1, seems to work fine.
Running DF shows some things that look like problems:
filesystem 1024-blocks used avail capacity mount
/dev/hda6 2476090 458526 1889550 20% /
/proc " " "
" /proc
none " " "
" /proc
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So, what to do? I would really hate to lose all the work put into this new
system.
I tried to do a tar backup over the network, but since the system never
finished booting, it hasn't got networking up yet.
I can't figure out what happened, what's wrong, or what to do.
Thanks,
Gregory Guthrie
(please also reply by Email)
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Gregory Guthrie
guthrie@mum.edu (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103
Computer Science Department
College of Science and Technology
Maharishi University of Management
http://www.mum.edu/csdept
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