how to fix the file system?

[Hugh Esco]

With my Debian installation I have become accustomed to power brown-outs 
here on the mountain.  I perform without benefit of a net or a UPS (which 
so far has been out of my price range).  I find the need to frequently run 
fsck -- that is File System Check.

Try man fsck for details.  But basically you run it against each partition.

fsck /dev/hda1
fsck /dev/hda2
fsck /dev/hda3
fsck /dev/hda6

Was the routine on my last installation.  hda4 was a divvied up into 5 and 
6.  running fsck on it produced errors.  As did running it against 
/dev/hda5, which was the swap partition.

This command requires tending, it will ask you if you want to fix the 
errors it finds.  Running man fsck will reveal the options available, 
including one which answers yes to all prompts.

It was useful to keep me going, but could not prevent the frequent brown 
outs from taking their toll.  That 40gb drive died just a few weeks ago and 
the system had to be rebuilt.

-- Hugh

At 01:37 PM 9/28/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Ok, like an idiot i've turned off my linux computer with out doing shutdown.
>My friend did this, and got a root prompt after his file system was shown to
>be bad. Assuming next time I try to boot into linux next time, and myne is
>found to be bad, is there anything like scan disk that can fix it? Note I'm
>runing red hat 9, and i don't want to reinstall.
>
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