Re: File system error (power outage)
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:55, Francisco Castellon wrote:
> Hello:
>
> sometime last night my power must have gone off and back on again, I
> came to my computer today in the morning to find it saying:
>
> /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; run fsck manually
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the
> root file system is currently mounted read only. To remount it
> read-write:
>
> # mount -n -o remount, rw /
>
> CONTROL -D will exit from this shell and reboot the system.
>
>
> So what am I supposed to do now?
What it says: repair the disk manually and reboot. This does not mean
reinstalling Debian.
fsck -y /dev/hda3
should fix almost everything (-y means answer yes to all questions,
which you ought to do). Afterwards, look in {partition}/lost+found for
any disconnected files that fsck may have recovered.
> I really dont have any critical
> information in the computer and I wouldn't mind reinstalling again,
> however there are about 5 files that I would like to keep. What exactly
> am I supposed to do with "e2fsck"? what command should I run? is it
> possible to fix this and not have to reinstall? I ran the command:
> "mount -n -o remount, rw /" and then I got this message:
>
> warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended.
>
> so then I ran "e2fsck /" and I got this message:
>
> WARNING!!! running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE
> filesystem damage.
> do you want to continue [y/n]:
>
>
> So I typed no for now. what should I do at this point? what commands can
> I run? I would appreciatte any help you can give me. Thanx!
You go ahead any way. You're in single user mode and no other processes
are going to be changing the partition.
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