FC4 File system corrupted. Help!

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:05 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> The FC4 Rescue Disk reports that my Linux partition is not a vaid
> partition. Same from the Knoppix 3.3 CD.
> Lloyd Hayes
> 
I am not sure Knoppix 3.3 would have been able to use LVM (the current
release of Knoppix is 3.8), but it is strange that the FC4 rescue could
not.

As has already been suggested, a head crash can wipe out a few sectors
and not otherwise affect a drive (for a while).

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> 
> Craig White wrote: 
> > 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...
> > >     
> > -----
> > 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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