On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:46 +1300, Nigel Nguyen wrote:
Hi all,
Yesterday, I did nothing special with the computer... However, this morning, something special came to me when I booted it up
"/etc/init.d/rcS line 227: /sbin/fsck fsck failed. Please repair manually ... "more text"... "
Does anyone got any idea what the problem is this and how to get over ?
Fsck is a file system check. It's usually run on boot when the filesystem was not umounted properly, or sometimes it runs every n mounts, etc. When a fsck fails it probably means that some part of your file system has been corrupted. There are a number of things that could have caused this and it's not necessarily fatal. In my experience Linux is very good at recovering filesystem inconsistencies caused by forced shutdowns, of course if your hard disk is dying... who knows. I suggest you read the fsck manpage which has plenty of information on the suggested steps for recovering from a failed fsck (it basically involves invoking fsck again with some special options to try and recover). If you're still stuck, let us know what filesystem you're using and we can go from there. Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz