os doesn't boot, "filesystem needs repair."

[Paula J. Lindsay]

Hi Mr. Roth,
I fixed my problem.  I was going to painfully reinstall, but when I 
booted from the cd, I was able to see the filesystem (ext3).  I decided 
to take a chance
and umount each filesystem and do an fsck on each one.  The / is the one 
that was in bad shape.  Lost inodes, lost packets belonging to inodes, 
stuff I'd
never heard of before.  I did an fsck and in about 40 minutes the 
filesystem was repaired and I was able to do a reboot and get the system 
back up.  Can
I ask you why the filesystem didn't repair when it asked me from the 
single user before bringing up the filesystem, just the kernel 
controller?  Also, I
checked the logs and it seems like the trouble started when ypxfrd and 
ypbind went down.   That doesn't make sense to me.  Well, at least I can 
go to
the summit and not worry about it.  Many thanks for answering me, I 
really really appreciate your help.
Paula

m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:

>Paula,
>
>  
>
>>Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 08:02:19 -0700
>>From: "Paula J. Lindsay" <paula at scripps.edu>  
>>
>>I have an IBM array box running RHE AS 4 with the kernel 2.6.9-42.  This 
>>box has been down for almost 2 weeks.  I had to do a filesystem rebuild, and
>>then a filesystem repair.  I could not finish the repair because it was 
>>going on 3 days of repairing.  I don't think this is unusual because the 
>>box is a total
>>of 1.5 terabytes.  Anyway, I've run all the hardware diagnostics and 
>>come up with everything passing these tests.  IBM wants me to run an 
>>ibm.iso to
>>    
>>
><snip>
>First question: what filesystem (ext2,3, reiser, xfs,?). Second, there is a "do it all without prompting" switch.
>
>    mark "good luck...."
>
>  
>

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