[wellylug] Power flip affected servers

[Xav Paice]

> A few minutes ago, all power went off here. I was booting my Ubuntu 
> system at the time. It took out that and the Centos server where my 
> website is hosted. After power was restored, the Centos machine came 
> back up with a little help, but Ubuntu is reporting bad blocks. 
> 
> An error came up saying: 
> /dev/hda1 UNEXPECTED INCONSTENCY ; RUN fsck MANUALLY 
> (i.e. without -a or -p options) 
> 


One of those helpful error messages that actually tells you what to do! 

Without knowing your fstab and so what /dev/hda1 mounts as, I'd suggest you boot using an Ubuntu CD then simply run: 
# umount /dev/sda1 
# fsck -Cy /dev/sda1 

If you're in the Ubuntu CD you will be able to check the manpage before running these if you're concerned. For fsck, the -C is to display progress bar and the -y is to automatically fix stuff if required. 

Good luck! 
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