[wellylug] Power flip affected servers

[Xav Paice]

> Thanks, I found the Ubuntu 8 CD and am now in rescue mode. It is at the 
> point of disk partitioning. As it would be unfortunate to make a wrong 
> decision here (as the server setup could be wiped) I'm cautious about 
> the partitioning step. 
> 

don't touch that dial! 

You probably need to be using the LiveCD version rather than an install only CD - that will boot up to a friendly Gnome desktop from the CD only, and have the option of mounting hard disks etc without touching the PC. Once there, open up a terminal and run the fsck - don't go resizing partitions etc as there's no need. 

What's on /dev/hda1 - what filesystem is it? If it's not / or similar, it might be better just to add the 'single' option to grub, drop to a shell and run fsck without the CD (although I'm not totally sure Ubuntu does that like Red Hat). 
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