Hi, On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:43:17AM +0000, yan bai wrote: > > > some error messages are as the following: > > > /////////BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE > > > checking root filesystem It is checking the *root* filesystem automatically... > > > /:File /root/.gnome/session(inode#74.) has 1 duplicate block(s), shared ... and it found a problem with files on the root filesystem ... > Several lines followed are 'USE fsck MANUALLY' and then ask me to input the > root password. ... and it wanted a manual fsck to fix it ... > I tried to use fsck under the root, but I was told I should use boot instead > of directories. I don't understand this sentence at all. > so I used the disk to boot into rescue mode, which gave a > shell prompt as sh-2.04, the following is what I tried and the message I > got. > > sh-2.04# fsck /dev/sda1 <ENTER> > parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000) > e2fsck 1.19 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > /boot:clean, 27/14056 files, 5616/56190 blocks ^^^^^ ... and you then manually fscked a different filesystem. "/boot" is not the same filesystem as "/". Your system seems to be using filesystem labels, so if you do fsck LABEL=/ it should be able to find the right disk for the root filesystem automatically. Cheers, Stephen
