As far as I remember, there is a 'magic' command listed in the manual, something like: e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hda3 assuming hda3 is your root partition. The -b 8193 is the block size. It takes an eternity to run, and you sometimes even need to run it twice. But usually you can just do hutdown -r now afterwards and you should be ok. Bad blocks and the hassle of sorting them out after X crashes and cold reboots was my main motivation for going over to reiserfs. Boy I love that file system! Good luck, and my heart goes out to you! k. On Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:19 AM, Peter B. Van Campen [SMTP:pbvanca@ameritech.net] wrote:
Dear SUSEer,
I forgot that my system (6.3 Suse Linux) had a bad ventilation fan, and the scsi drive that has / on it has media errors.
I ran the ADAPTECH low-level "Media Verify" utility, and it flagged and relocated about 24 blocks.
Now at boot time fsck says "Inode 491731 has illeagal block[s]. /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) Then it gives some instructions regarding mounting.
MY PROBLEM: I need some more detailed guidance to run e2fsck manually.
what options and arguments does it need?
Does it have to be done more than once?
Please help............ I don't have access to the How-to's or the MAN pages!!
................Thanks ......Pete
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