[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

John Durham john.modec at xtra.co.nz
Mon Jul 12 08:20:16 NZST 2010


On 11/07/2010 8:39 p.m., Mark Foster wrote:
> 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...)
No problem for me. In this area everyone is as close as the keyboard.


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