more information... the system is actually giving the following error... "Error reading block 44338 (attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 653116. /: unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually " i entered the root system passwd, and attempted to run "fsck" with fsck /dev/hda1 and by running fsck -f -c -y / neither appeared to do any good/work... any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated... thanks bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx hi... i have a system that is giving errors when trying to reboot... it's stating that i should do a "fsck" manually... when i type "fsck" it's stating that i haven't specified any hardware (or something to that effect...) i only have one hard drive on this system... and i "realllyyy!!!!" need to get this back up/running.... i suspect that the issue has something do with rechecking/rebuilding the filesystem... but not being a linux admin, i'm hoping that someone here might be able to help walk me through this issue!!! thanks bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list