fsck check failed

odeimi_t'zaune · 01-03-2008, 11:51 AM

fsck failed. I tried to do it manually and it still wouldn't work. I run both windows and ubuntu on here. Any ideas what to do?

Uncle_Theodore · 01-03-2008, 11:56 AM

What filesystem are you using? What happened exactly? Is your harddrive failing?

odeimi_t'zaune · 01-03-2008, 02:12 PM

I don't know. I don't know and I don't know. Windows side works fine. Ran a systems check on it and it's fine. Problem started when laptop froze while updating and I couldn't do a thing. Not even move the mouse. Restart and I get the error.

Slick666 · 01-03-2008, 02:20 PM

Doesn't sounds like a hardware problem. I have a feeling your filesystem on your linux install got corrupted.

Uncle_Theodore · 01-03-2008, 02:30 PM

You might wanna boot from a LiveCD and fsck your Linux partition from it.

cwej · 01-05-2008, 11:42 PM

How are you running fsck? You're not running fsck from the terminal of the booted up system are you? Running fsck on a mounted system can cause problems...see the old post this forum at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...system-415725/

The post, by alienDOG recommends using:

shutdown -rF now

-- to force shutdown, and check on reboot...