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[Stefan Nilsen <stefan.nilsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >1. You can only run fsck as root.
> >2. You can only run fsck (properly) on file-systems that are *not*
> >    mounted read-write.

> The command to repair the filesystem is (here we will take: /dev/sda5 as
> the damaged one):
> e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/sda5
>
> Would anyone here be able to tell me whether this is the proper procedure
> for me?

I would do:
e2fsck -f -c -v /dev/hda8

If that fails, badblocks not found, try 
e2fsck -f -v /dev/hda8

Remove -v if you dont want it to be verbose (show lots of info).

If it works you should make a backup and perhaps invest in a new disk. Also I 
recommend you to split the disk into more paritions. I would suggest you to 
make the following separate parttitions:

/
/usr
/usr/local
/tmp
/var
/opt
/home
/boot

/Stefan