Disk error! ACK!
I ran into this problem tonight and I'm trying to be very cautious
so if anyone can give me (a semi newbie) some advice I'd appreciate it.
Here's what happened. I used CFDISK to re-designate a extra partition on
my hard drive from BeOS type (it wasn't being used at all) to Windows95 Fat
32
so that I could expand some room for my win95 (games ya know). Rebooted and
went
directly to windows, formatted, ect.
When I rebooted to Linux I received a number of errors regarding the
/dev/hda5
drive (my /usr directory) that is 2 gigs in size. The errors went something
like this:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Block #227 of the
inode table group 57 is group. (I think this is the correct error)
It recommends I run fsck manually. After altering the fstab so that /usr
wasn't
mounted right away i tried to run fsck /dev/hda5 and received a message that
stated
"/dev/hda5 has illegal blocks (a number here), clear? <y>
I'm cautious about clearing some illegal block for fearing I'll lose data or
what not.
Can anyone fill me in on what's happening or will I lose data or what not?
I have
too much there to not be concerned :)
Thanks
Jon
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