--- On Wed, 6/1/10, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Ilugc] fsck problem
> To: "Indian Chennai" <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, 6 January, 2010, 6:01 AM
> hi,
> 
> this is a fairly old Mandriva 2008 install. It was working
> ok. I needed to 
> copy some files from an old hard disk that was not booting.
> Put it in as a 
> slave and copied. No problem. after some time, when booting
> my machine (after 
> slave was removed, it said fsck.ext3 error and dropped me
> to shell. As usual, 
> I entered the root passward and started running fsck
> manually - it was 
> /dev/hd5. Answered yes to all 'fix?' questions and it said
> disk was clean. To 
> be sure, I repeated the process - again said disk is clean
> and asked to 
> reboot. I rebooted and the same error crops up. On manual
> fsck, same errors 
> are shown, fixed, disk clean message appears, but no reboot
> - same problem. How 
> to solve this?
 
My guess
a.Check system date - sometimes date of last check and current system date
doesn't tally.
b. The disk may have bad blocks. 
Possible solutions:
Boot with live cd and run fsck.
Run badblocks on the disk to determine its health.

Raman.P
blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/





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