Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Need Some Help

[William S. <bs...@tw...>]

On Saturday 09 December 2000 15:51, Reed wrote:

> > An error occurred during the file system check. Something about "Seed dd"
> [FAILED] and it cannot "Unlink".  It drops me to a command line stating:
>
> dev/hdal contains a file system with errors
> /dev/hdal; UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY
>
> Give root password for maintenance _
>
>
> What should I do to correct (or diagnoise)the problem?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

This is bad.  You have a corrupt filesystem.  You may or may not be able to 
fix this.  Enter the root password and the system will go into single user 
mode.  From there you will want to run fschk on the problem file system 
(/dev/hda1).  In general, if fsck suggests a corrective action, do it.

At the prompt try this:

   fsck /dev/hda1

Also consult the man pages for fsck and e2fsck.


Now as to why this happened, there are two likely reasons:

1. The hard disk has failed.
2. You did something improper like turning the machine off without shutting 
it down first.

Anybody else experienced with filesystem repair?

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