hi all, I have been having many issues (freezing when opening apps to be exact) on my fedora 6 computer. I have since burnt a fedora 6 live cd (using it now) and the computer seems to be working fine off of it. I am assuming that since this runs off memory (correct?) that this shows that the issue is either with a bad install of fedora 6 (got the os from a book)or perhaps from the hard drive. as such I am trying to use fsck (for the first time) from the live cd to check my installed fedora. I run fdisk -l and get this..
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225984 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
I am assuming that I am looking at the actual installed partitions on my harddrive as opposed to some virtual partition from the live cd that I am running...assuming
I then run the command fdisk (using every option I could find on the man page) and get this...
[root@localhost ~]# fsck -cbfy /dev/hda1
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/boot: recovering journal
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 0/ done
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/boot: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/boot: 43/26104 files (7.0% non-contiguous), 20885/104388 blocks
[root@localhost ~]#
Not sure what is means but at least it ran the command and it executed ok...so then I look at the other partition that I saw from the fdisk -l command and I get this...
[root@localhost ~]# fsck -cbfy /dev/hda2
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
fsck.ext2: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/hda2
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
[root@localhost ~]#
hmm its not mounted (when I ran umount /dev/hda2 it said device not mounted...)so what is up? is this the partition on my actual installed fedora 6 or some virtual partition that is made from the live cd...also I don't know if it makes a difference but as you can see from the fdisk -l command the partition type for /dev/hda2 was 8e which I think should be the logical volume. So basically I burnt and ran the live cd in order to run this command to check the installed partition via fsck but still do not know how to do this...your help or thoughts are greatly appreciated...