On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> My system locked up and couldn't get any sort of response from it so I ended
> up hitting the <shudder> reset button. Now when it boots up I get a message
> saying: /dev/hda1 unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually. I have to
> enter the root password and it puts me at a prompt. I run fsck and it just
> says Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 and does nothing. fsck --help does the
> same thing, I type man fsck and it tells me command not found. What do I
> do from here?
>
run e2fsck /dev/hda1
This is essentially "scandisk" for Linux. :-) Just hit
"enter" at any questions.... that works best, I've found.
:-)
John