file system with errors

**westiferus** · 03-21-2004

My freinds DELL Latitude laptop that was running Win98 crashed and she asked me to install linux on it. I installed Red Hat 7.2, but the first time i booted it up, with GRUB, I got this error:

/ contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Error reading block 1310833 (Attempt to read block from filesystem rusulted in short read) while doing inode scan.

Then I'm dropped into the shell. What can I do to get this up and running?

**sarumont** · 03-21-2004

Do this:

Code:

fsck /dev/hdxy

Where x=a,b,c,d (primary/secondary master/slave) and y the partition number (0 and up) of your root (/) partition.

**westiferus** · 03-21-2004

Typed in: fsck /dev/hdxy

Got back:
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdxy

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem, then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try rinning e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

What now?

**variant** · 03-21-2004

Code:
fsck /dev/hdxy

Where x=a,b,c,d (primary/secondary master/slave) and y the partition number (0 and up) of your root (/) partition.

I dont think you noticed that he had sayd that.

Substitute xy for the real drive/partition letter and number

**westiferus** · 03-21-2004

oops. So I entered: fsck /dev/hda1 and got back /boot: clean, 36/12048 files, 7484/48163 blocks. What next?

PS- thanks for all of your help, this is frustrating.

**Nerderello** · 03-21-2004

you may have a media (disk) problem, in which case you may want to try running badblocks

run it as root by :-

Code:

/sbin/badblocks /dev/hda1

have fun

Nerderello

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