Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0600, Wojciech Komornicki wrote:I rebooted my FC4 installation only to find that it hung after loading all the packages. I went into rescue mode and running fsck on /dev/sys I am told that I have a bad boot sector or that the file system is not an ext2 file system. Since I can mount the disk under /mnt/sysimage am I running fsck on the wrong file system?I suspect you are. Run "fdisk -l" for a complete list of hard drives that have partitions
Even better, see what's in /etc/fstab: would fdisk show this? /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 or RAID devices? Well it does show them like this: /dev/hda2 14 2498 19960762+ 8e Linux LVM but I don't think fsck is quite the way to go.
on them. The first column gives the device files for the partitions, e.g. /dev/hda2. Run fsck on those partition device files that have file systems, e.g. Linux, vfat, as indicated in the last column. fsck will (correctly) refuse to run on mounted partitions. Run a recent live CD to fsck /, /home, and other partitions you must have in order to run. Also take a look at badblocks.
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