When it drops you to the prompt just type in "fsck /dev/hda4" do this
without any switches. This should be all you need to do to get running
again.
Craig
Richard Humphrey wrote:
>
>
> I got home last night and my PC was in Windows :( so I rebooted into
> Linux, and apparently someone had not shut my system down incorrectly.
> Now I get the following error when booting up:
>
> /dev/hda4 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> /dev/hda4
> unattached inode 146546
>
> /dev/hda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; Run fsck manually. (i.e., without
> -a or -p options)
>
> Then it drops me to a shell.
> I am new to Linux and am not sure if there is a way I can fix this. I
> really don't want to have to reinstall, as I have a website on this
> partition that I have worked on for quite a while. I tried to run fsck
> but I don't know what It is or how to use it. Any ideas? Thanks..
>
> rlh
