--- 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/ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
