[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

[John Durham]

On 18/07/2009 6:21 p.m., 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.
Then you will be pleased to know that a few minutes ago the system was 
playing games and accessing Google on line. That was more than I hoped for.

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Regards, John Durham
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