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On 2006-12-23T10:54+0000 Simon Waters wrote: > Come on Kai... more detail. > You don't mention the filesystem type, or drive type. > You don't say why you couldn't run fsck from the Ubuntu LiveCD. I didn't have the liveCD, only the alternate. Since downloaded the "desktop" CD and now I can do stuff. I hate the "desktop" CD for installs. :) > Is this ext3, with the journal inode being toast? Since ext3 is the > default filesystem under Ubuntu. Yes, ext3. > What caused the problem in the first place? According to my sister she just booted the machine one morning to see it bomb out with fsck error. > fsck has a "-y" option, which generally is a good idea unless you think > you are going to have to sort stuff manually, which answers your "yes" > to everything issue. Ah, that seems to cleared up problems, though /dev/hda1 boot files seem damaged. > If it is just a root/system disk with no user data of consequence, I'd > probably just install over. Once "badblocks" or similar was run to check > it wasn't a physical disk issue, life is too short to try and recover > iffy filesystems if they don't have crucial data on, especially if it > was the ext3 journal that went. I've run badblocks -s now. Didn't know about it! Doesn't seem to be a problem with the physical drive, so the cause of the initial problem is a bit of a mystery. I will try install 6.10 root over /dev/hda1 with hopefully /dev/hda6 remaining intact as /home. Thanks for your help!
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