Re: Filesystem error
Hi Stefan.
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:21:59 -0500
Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0500, Stefan Sten wrote:
> > I followed the instructions at the promt tried with 'mount -n -o
> > remount,rw /' and then 'e2fsck dev/hda1'.
>
> If at all possible you should boot from an emergency disk/CD. In any
> case, it is dangerous to run fsck on a filesystem that is mounted
> read-write. If you can boot from floppy/CD don't mount the filesystem at
> all,
and run
fsck -c /dev/hda1
for check badblocks
> and if you have to boot from HD don't remount it rw.
> > That gave me: "FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED", I rebooted and the system keeps
> > complaning as before. Does somebody recognise this?
>
> Don't stop after you run fsck once. Keep running it until it doesn't
> tell you about any more errors. If you have too many errors you may want
> to just save what data you can to another partition, wipe that one, and
> restore from a backup. You should also make yourself a note about this,
> filesystem corruption can sometimes be caused by a hardware problem.
>
> --
> Michael Heironimus
>
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