fsck needs to be run on each filesystem in turn. e2fsck -p /dev/hda1 e2fsck -p /dev/hda2 e2fsck -p /dev/hda3 e2fsck -p /dev/hda4 e2fsck -p /dev/hda5 if your system has only 1 hard drive. if it has more that 1 drive then the /dev/hda1 will probably be /dev/hdc1, c2, c3 and so on. The -p means "fix things automatically", so you shoukd be able to boot afterwards. About your user data in /home/maude/, all is not totally lost, though really I would recommend you get a friend with another linux PC to help you out, as it would help if you dont touch at all the hard drive you are wanting to recover - basically unplugging it and putting it into another machine would be a much safer start. I guess you're in windows or something at the moment, go read this: http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/ Im afraid ive never used it, so I dont know how good it is, but if you still havent run either an fsck or mounted that filesystem since rebooting, you do have a reasonable chance. Ewan On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 19:07, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

I've reinstalled OpenOffice 1.0 as user "mauede". I chose as directory for OpenOffice "/home/mauede" . The installation started but it stopped soon signalling it caould not find "jave Runtime" . I looked for "java" by "rpm -ql java". I got a long list of modules. The system answer to "which java" was "/usr/lib/jave/bin/java". Having figured aout "java" is installed I decided to quit OpenOffice installation and restart it providing the right path to "java". When I aborted OpenOffice installation it asked me if I wanted the whole directory to be deleted. As i prefer to restart from scratch I answered "yes" and immediately figured out it was deleting my user directory where I do have all my project "/home'mauede". Panicing I pushed the Reset" button on the computer tower. This action cauesed rebooting but ... it actually does not reboot... I can see on the screen that "fsck" failed and the system invokes a repair by running "fsck" manually. I tried and it suggested running "e2fsck". Unluckily this command expects some options and a device name. I do not know what to do ... How can I retrieve my s/w and my own user ??? I'm so desperate .....

Thank you , Maura

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Several people have already responded. Just a couple of opinions: When you go into single user mode, you can tell what file systems are supposed to be mounted on what partitions. If you run fsck on the root partition, it is very important that it be mounted read only. SuSE normally leaves it in read only mode when you start up, but you can check in single user mode by trying to create a file. On other file systems, make sure they are unmounted. I prefer using fsck (coming from a classic Unix environment) rather than e2fsck et. al., but it is simply a wrapper which will select the correct one. so, assuming your file system is /dev/hda5: fsck -fsy /dev/hda5 The -f means force The -s means single thread (only relevant if you specify multiple) The -y means answer yes to all questions. If you don't specify you will be prompted for each fix. If you specify -n, then it will not fix anything. This is useful to get a handle on how many problems. On 23 May 2002 at 13:07, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

I've reinstalled OpenOffice 1.0 as user "mauede". I chose as directory for OpenOffice "/home/mauede" . The installation started but it stopped soon signalling it caould not find "jave Runtime" . I looked for "java" by "rpm -ql java". I got a long list of modules. The system answer to "which java" was "/usr/lib/jave/bin/java". Having figured aout "java" is installed I decided to quit OpenOffice installation and restart it providing the right path to "java". When I aborted OpenOffice installation it asked me if I wanted the whole directory to be deleted. As i prefer to restart from scratch I answered "yes" and immediately figured out it was deleting my user directory where I do have all my project "/home'mauede". Panicing I pushed the Reset" button on the computer tower. This action cauesed rebooting but ... it actually does not reboot... I can see on the screen that "fsck" failed and the system invokes a repair by running "fsck" manually. I tried and it suggested running "e2fsck". Unluckily this command expects some options and a device name. I do not know what to do ... How can I retrieve my s/w and my own user ??? I'm so desperate .....

Thank you , Maura

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