FC4 File system corrupted. Help!

[Lloyd Hayes]

The FC4 Rescue Disk reports that my Linux partition is not a vaid 
partition. Same from the Knoppix 3.3 CD.

Lloyd Hayes

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Craig White wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 21:09 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
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>
>>>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.
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>>>>
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>>>at the :repairing volume 1: prompt...
>>>
>>>e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1
>>>substitute freely for hda1 for other partitions or logical devices
>>>
>>>Craig
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>>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
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