On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:29:41AM -0500, Lav Aneja wrote: > Thanks for the reply. In single user mode, I ran e2fsck -y /dev/hda7 and it > conveyed me message > Pass 1: Checking inodes, block, and sizes > Error reading block 5684 (Attempt to read block from filesystem > resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>? Try *not* ignoring the error. You have got a hard disk failure in a critical inode table. You need to get e2fsck to relocate the inode table for that block group. Then once you've got your data off the disk, replace it! Cheers, Stephen
