[PLUG] Fsck Failed

David Kaplan davek52 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 12:02:33 UTC 2008


Thanks. How do I get to the maintenance shell?


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 16:37 -0800, David Kaplan wrote:
> > A friends PC running Mint 5 is getting these error messages:
> >
> > /dev/sda1 Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found
> > /dev/sda1 Unexpected Inconsistency . Run fsck manually (ie without -a or
> -p
> > options)
> >
> > root file system in read only mode
> > maintenence shell will now be started.
> >
> > fsck died with exit status 4
> >
> > What does that mean?
> >
> > When I try running recovery mode it still goes back to the same screen.
> >
> > What do i need to do to correct this problem?
>
> It means there is some corruption in the file system. Run 'fsck
> -y /dev/sda1' from the maintenance shell.
>
> Wil
>
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