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On Thursday 23 May 2002 02:36 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
I believe that you need to just run fsck /dev/hda if you have linux on the first IDE channel set as master. The /dev/hda parameter tells fsck what disk to do the check on.
Actually, you need to specify the file system (read: partition), not just disk to check. So, assuming that it's on the first partition of the first IDE hard disk, you'd do: e2fsck /dev/hda1 The 'a' specifies which IDE disk (a=1, b=2, ...), and the '1' specifies the partition #. I know that it's (usually) possible to recover files that have been deleted, and I belieive that there's a whole HOWTO on the subject. Check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.20 . Again: Best of luck. You might need it! -Nick