----- Message from robertcahn@xxxxxxx --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:02:16 -0500 From: Bob Cahn <robertcahn@xxxxxxx>Reply-To: rcahn@xxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Recovering from disk damage after a system hang. Newbie question. To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
My system froze. The mouse didn't move. All apps were unavailable. Eventually I hit the big red switch and when the system started rebooting I asked for the integrity check on the disks. That came back with problems and aborted the reboot so I finally just allowed the system to reboot. All seems normal but I think I still need to run a disk check to see what damage was done. All disks are ext3. What programs (since I assume there must be several) can I use to check the system integrity?
/Bob Cahn
Good day Bob.
Depending on which partition is coming up with problems (I am assuming / is the
problem), you may have to use the Rescue Disk to perform the check.
You are unable to repair (safely) file systems while they are mounted, this causes problems for the / partition.
Put in your FCx CD 1 and boot from it, then use the rescue mode. When it asks you to mount your system, you want to say no.
It will then take you to a command prompt, at this point in time you want to run
fsck.ext3 -y /dev/<drive and partition when root is held>
This should tell fsck to check that partition assuming it is ext3, and answers yes to all the questions.
Does this help?
-- Douglas Furlong ICQ: 7574077 "There are 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary, and those that do not"
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