Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

2002-10-22 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
Hello, after a total systemfreeze - probably due to a new installed kernel - i had to do a few resets. That bashed a few partiotions, among them the /files, which is my largest and most valuable with around 30 GB. All could be cleaned except of files, here is the output: -- # fsck /files **

Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

2002-10-22 Thread chip . wiegand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/22/2002 12:58:49 PM: Hello, after a total systemfreeze - probably due to a new installed kernel - i had to do a few resets. That bashed a few partiotions, among them the /files, which is my largest and most valuable with around 30 GB. All could be cleaned

Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

2002-10-22 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
Howabout answering these questions with 'yes' instead of 'no'? That always works for me. In fact, I have a hard drive on it's last legs, the other day it apparently crashed, I hard-reset the computer, ran fsck -y on that disk and finally after running this about 8 times it finally was marked

Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!

2002-10-22 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
LOL There is no prompt to type y or n, and it is the same with fsck -y. Sorry for not mentioning this. Meanwhile i got the tip to try... Dismount the volume before running fsck. The (NO WRITE) message means that the filesystem was in use or otherwise read-only. YES :D Thank you