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
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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