FC4 File system corrupted. Help!

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 21:09 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> > I got the bug in my Thunderbird email the other day. Today, I decided
> > > to un-install Thunderbird and re-install it using 'Yum Extender'
> > > 
> > > Bad move. Yum Extender froze while doing this. After letting it sit
> > > for a half hour, I did a force quit on it.
> > > 
> > > Afterwards I tried loading Synaptic to do the same thing. It would
> > > not start.
> > > 
> > > I logged out as a user, intending to log back in as root. I got a
> > > small red screen approximate 800x600 pixels in size, and I get a
> > > message that it can not load my graphical desktop. I had the line
> > > commands only, and most of those are cut off by the outer blue
> > > screen.
> > > 
> > > I rebooted.
> > > 
> > > I got the message that my file system was corrupted and Selinux was
> > > preventing repairs. It stated that it had disabled selinux. It needed
> > > my root password.
> > > 
> > > When I typed in the root password, I got this:
> > > 
> > > :repairing volume 1:
> > > 
> > > It is sitting there waiting for something, but I do not know what. If
> > > I simply type in "yes", I see a bunch of odd characters appear on
> > > that small red screen, then it goes blank. Nothing appears to be
> > > happening with my hard drive.
> > > 
> > > I can really use some help to recover some files here.
> >   
> > ----
> > at the :repairing volume 1: prompt...
> > 
> > e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1
> > substitute freely for hda1 for other partitions or logical devices
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> 
> fsck reports too many bad blocks. It attempts to copy them, but I
> think that it is simply running out of room. I have an 18 GB partition
> for Win XP and a 10 GB partition for FC4. There was about 2 GB free
> the last time I looked at the FC4 partition. 
> 
> I have a 2nd older laptop computer running FC3 which has not been
> updated recently. It works fine. I don't think that I'll update it
> all. I'm going to give up on FC4. It simply has too many problems...
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you are mixing a number of issues together and not giving/seeing a clear
picture.

- bad blocks is not a software issue. it is a hard drive issue. if you
have bad blocks on a hard drive, you probably need to copy everything
off to another hard drive.

- FC4, is fairly experimental, reflecting the stated goals of Fedora to
be more towards the bleeding edge. If what you want is tested and stable
Linux, things like RHEL 4 or CentOS 4 are likely to be more to your
liking.

if you run 'man e2fsck', you will find things like a '-c' option for
more handling of bad block issues

Craig