On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Richard Salts wrote about, Electrical failure:
> After the lights went out and, after a short time, came back on, here is
> what my Linux computer came up with after file check failures and so on.
>
> '**An error occurred during the file system check.
>
> ** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell.
>
> ** Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
> I give the root pwd and then the root prompt:
>
> root@localhost /root]#
>
>
>
> What do I do now to get the system up and working again?
You should have seen a message saying "Use fsck without any options" before
the prompt, anyway simply type fsck /dev/hdax where x is the partition with
the problem. Answer any questions with "y" or "n" you will be told whats
wrong.
When a system is shutdown without closing files properly inodes on the disk
do not get updated, fsck should "fix" that for you.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
>
> Richard
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Merry Xmas.
