Re: Help! E/Gnome system crash

[SoloCDM <deedsmis ris net>]

"Brandon S. Allbery" wrote:

> | *** An error has occurred during the filesystem check.
> | *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> | *** When you leave the shell
> | Give root password for maintenance
> | (or type Control-D for normal startup):
> |
> | So know I have to figure out how to get the system working again. That
> | is where I am at now.
> +--->8
>
> Enter the root password, then manually run fsck on the root file system.
> e2fsck is extremely paranoid, and bails out in many cases where most *ixes'
> fsck programs will simply correct the problem and continue.

Granted, e2fsck may be paranoid, but fsck.ext2 was designed for ext2 files
systems, so using fsck.ext2 may be the best move for your type of OS.

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Signed,
Daniel D. Munden