I think my hard drive with Linux on it has been corrupted in some fashion. When I load windows, it works fine, but when I load Linux, I get this
Checking root filesystem
/dev/hdd1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
/dev/hdd1: |============= %checked(terminates at about 40%)
Inode 1457053 has imagic flag set.
/dev/hdd1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)
(beware you can lose data)
If I hit Y it begins a long process that doesn’t seem to do anything. It’s been running for close to two hours (I’m typing on an old computer). Is there a way to access the Linux portion from Windows, just to resuce a few files, mostly Blender related, all of them compatible with Windows. If so, I’ll just copy those and reformat the disk. I really don’t want to lose some of those files so I could really, really use some advice here.
fsck shouldn’t run for two hours. Have you tried to reboot the computer, using a boot/root disk, if you have the linux disks you can make boot/root disks using raw write on windows? Then you can save the files you want. It sounds like a virus, or did your computer shutdown with out using the shutdown command.
Umm, ok The only boot disk I’ve got for Linux was one I created to install Linux. I tried reseting it with the disk in, but it just tried to get me to reinstall Linux. I do have to Linux cds. HOw would I go about making the disks you’re talking about? I’m thinking it was a virus, but I’m not sure. The last person to turn of my computer was my little brother, but I’ve told him how to do it, and I’ve asked him what he did and it seemed normal. One possible improvement… I’m running the disk check and it got to about 70% before finding an error. Before it was 40%
although it may look like it’s fine it can be that some data is lost.
you should look in your lost+found directory and if there are files there.
then that are the lost inodes that fsck couldn’t relocate for you.
you can do it manualy thou. for text files it wouldn’t be a problem. binairies would be a bit more difficult
