[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

[John Durham]

Mark Foster wrote:
>> You pretty much need to do what it says. fsck is the equivalent of
>> 'scandisk' and is used to repair errors within the filesystem.  Get a
>> command prompt, ensure you're root, and run fsck on the specified
>> partition.  It'll either work and sort you out - or your problems are
>> significant enough to warrant a good hard look at your system.
>>
>> I may be able to help, just need to get to grips with what you're trying
>> to achieve.  A from-scratch approach will probably help clear up alot of
>> your woes.
>>
> 
> For anyone interested, I paid John a visit a little while ago; the hard 
> disk concerned had definate signs of physical damage and/or impending disk 
> failure based on the serious number of errors fsck was generating on the 
> partition concerned...
> 
> As I left Ubuntu 9.04 was installing on another drive.
> 
> John, hope you have more success with that one... feel free to post onto 
> the LUG if you have troubles, try to be as clear as possible with regards 
> to the symptoms - how you got to where you were - and what your 
> intentions are ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Mark.
> 
> 
Thanks. I just got it connected to the web a minute ago. So far so good. 
Thanks for your help!

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