after typing fsck /dev/sda1 I get the following: "WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you ***WILL*** cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)?
so I aborted. thomas On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Tony Cratz <cr...@hematite.com> wrote: > On 06/13/2010 11:42 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: >> Just to be painfully clear as to what I am doing: >> (1) power on, hold down shift key >> (2) highlight boot option, "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic >> (recovery mode)" and press 'e' to edit the commands >> (3) from the recovery menu, choose 'root' drop to root shell prompt >> (4) I enter my root password and then run fsck /home, which gives the >> following output: >> # fsck /home >> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 >> e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) >> fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /home >> >> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 >> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 >> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the >> superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an >> alternate superblock: e2fsck –b 8193 <device> >> >> >> I am not sure that this is relevant, but my /dev/sda1 is type ext4 > > > try fsck /dev/sda1 > > > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
