On Monday 16 December 2002 07:46 pm, Anand Ulaganathan wrote: > Hi... > I had a problem while booting. When checking the root file > system....fsck was recommended.... When i used fsck / command i > got the following error msg.. > "Error reading block 196814(attempt to read block from > filesystem resulted in short read)while doing inode scan "
You have a bad block on the disk. Backup the data and run fsck. If root partition is corrupted, you might have to reinstall. If you get to boot, run badblocks and skip those blocks from usage. man badblocks for more details. HTH Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
