Crashed hard disk.

["Ravikant K.Rao" <ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Diraviam" == T P Diraviam <pksmani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Diraviam> Hi everybody, The file system on my hard disk with RH
    Diraviam> 6.1 Linux crashed beyond recovery when the power failed
 
	man e2fsck

    Diraviam> three or four times on one Sunday.  The system recovered
    Diraviam> the first few times after running fschk manually as
    Diraviam> recommended.

	When you're booting, go into failsafe mode , or if you don't
reach even that stage, AFAIK , RH drops you into a weird root shell -- 
go in, and you wont have stuff mounted -- run e2fsck and say "Yes" to
everything it wants to fix -- and you should be okay.

								--ravi
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