fsck question
 

7.1 crashed and caused the whole system to go down. Now, When re-booting, it goes through it's processes and it halts with a message telling me to either fix the problem by typing in my root password or continue normally by pressing "Control-D." If I press Ctrl-D, The computer re-boots and I am left with the same problem. The PC recommends running "fsck" but it seems as though I'm having to check each and every file. Note: It recommends not to use the -p and -a switches. Even trying fsck -a just did one individual file anyway.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Don't won't to lose all customizations and installs I've already done to the system.

Re: fsck question
 

Any idea why this happened? You want to avoid things like this whenever possible.

In order to fix this you will need to insert a boot disk of some kind and run fsck from there. You can use the installation cd in "rescue mode" for this purpose.

Re: fsck problem
 

First off, Thanks so much for the reply and help zmedico.

This crash occured while being connected to a corporate network using SSL/VPN/Citrix. Went to open an additional web page and total freeze up and crash using NN.


I have had this happen before in the past and reinstalled RH but this time I was hoping not to have to go that route.

Re: Re: fsck problem
 

Did you try to kill XFree86 with the three-fingered "cntrl-alt-backspace"?

Try this .It worked for me.


fsck -A -V ; echo ==$?==

The echo ==$?== gives you the status.
After this reboot ur system.Good luck.