after power failure

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lalit,

To fix after a power failure and fsck fails, (assumiing your root
partition is on /dev/hda1):

[Give the root password when asked and go into single-user mode]
mount -oremount,ro -n /
e2fsck -y -f -v /dev/hda1
[Reset power to the system]

For long-term solutions, have a look at one of the many Journalling
filesystems available for Linux.  Reiserfs support is already in the
kernel, XFS, JFS and Ext3 will be available soon.  Note that migrating
your root FS to a new filesystem type isn't for the faint of heart!

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Lalit" == Lalit Sharma <lalit1825@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Lalit> Hello to all the Linux comminute.  i am a new member to
    Lalit> this community and fresh passout engineer from Panjab
    Lalit> University Chandigarh.  i have RH 7.0 on my system i had
    Lalit> faced twice this problem.  i was working on my system and
    Lalit> suddenly power fails unfortunately i don't have a UPS then
    Lalit> after restarting my system i got a hell of error messages
    Lalit> ........  then the system asked me to give the root
    Lalit> password to repair the file system.  as a new user to Linux
    Lalit> i don't know much, please explain me how can i repair the
    Lalit> file system in linux.  as i had to reinstall the whole
    Lalit> Linux.  and more, is there anything which can be applied so
    Lalit> that next time if power fails or improper shutdown
    Lalit> happenes, then file system don't corrupts.

    Lalit> with regards Lalit
-- 
Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/