[wellylug] File recovery after a crash.

[Glen Ogilvie]

Hi John,

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:22:07 +1200, MDM Productions
<thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> My laptop runs PCLOS 2009.1 derived from Mandriva(?), ext3 FS, and has 
> fallen foul of an unhappiness with Suspending To Disk when the lid is 
> closed. And yes, I must remove that "feature"!
> On boot, it finds fault with /dev/hda6 at a huge hex number and drops to

> a Control-D reboot or to a shell.
> I potter about learning as I go, but I am woefully ignorant of what is 
> under the bonnet. For today's lesson, could one of you clever people out

> there instruct on what to tell the Command Line in order to begin the 
> healing process. I expect that it was discussed back in Linux 101 on a 
> day I was absent from school! Thanks.

In the shell it drops to, run
fsck -y /dev/hda6

This will tell it to repair the filesystem on /dev/hda6, and will assume
"yes" to questions.

Suspect to disk can work, but depends on a few things, like that your swap
has to be bigger than the amount of ram you have.  It also depends on the
laptop.  I've not had that much luck with it myself.

Regards
Glen Ogilvie