[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

Mark Foster blakjak at blakjak.net
Sun Jul 11 20:39:19 NZST 2010


On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, John Durham wrote:

> 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.
>

Hi John. A full 12 months later, not bad. ;-) (Holy dig-up-an-old-thread!)

Incidentally i'm no longer your neighbour, having relocated back to 
Auckland last week.  Good luck, though.

:-)

( I hope WellyLUG types don't mind if I lurk a bit longer...)




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