[PLUG] Error reading block xxxx

[Richard C. Steffens]

Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> Old Man Knoppix might be your best friend once again.  You'd be better
> off running a fsck when the root filesystem hasn't been involved in the
> bootup.  Booting from a CD is ideal for situations like these.  Plus,
> the version of fsck will be newer (if your knoppix disk isn't as old as
> your RH7 load).

Sounds like a good idea. The disk the OS is on is not the one with the
problem, but I can download and burn a Knoppix CD and have new tools to
work with.

> It's been a looonnng time since I used ext2, but I seem to remember that
> you have to pass a switch to get verbose output.

A switch to fsck? Is fsck what I need to read up on?

Thanks for the help.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens