Nick Rout wrote:
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sorry i just see people going off at awful tangents. I don't know why
anyone thought your file system was corrupt. How about just deleting the
offending file?
No problem, Nick.
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I guess it won't hurt to fsck anyway. what filesystem are you running?
I'll do this anyway, as you suggest.
When I ran the Mandrake rescue option, the splash screen suggested doing an lspart, which I did. It listed several partitions, an unknown 1G (which I think is some Windows trickery), the 11Gb NTFS, FAT32, the swap, and hda6 and hda8 (I think), both of which it declared to be ext2.
I couldn't find an executable called simply "fsck". There was something called fsck.ext2. From the man page online, it looks like this is the same thing as e2fsck (perhaps it's just an alias, or a script). It wanted me to name a device, so I tried simply "fsck.ext2 hda6", but it didn't like it. I see now from the man page that I need to go e2fsck /dev/hda6, so I'll give this a crack next time I get a chance.
BTW, when the man page says "e2fsck(8)", what does the (8) mean?
