[NBLUG/talk] File system error on boot up

Howard howardas at pacbell.net
Mon Dec 1 21:58:01 PST 2003


Todd Cary wrote:

> I have a second drive that is not being used and apparently my effort 
> to partition and format it did something nasty.  Now when I reboot, I 
> get an error, "File system check produced an error" or something along 
> that line.  I am then dropped to the Shell and after typing in the 
> root password, I get the following prompt:
>
> (Repair file system) 1 #
>
> I would like to take the drive out of the boot up process, but I do 
> not know what I should do with the above prompt.
>
> Help....
>
> Todd

You can use the e2fsch repair tool to check the drive for missing 
clusters, or just unplug the drive.

Howard




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