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gettin a error message fsck failed

Asked by avinash!!!!

im gettin ERROR while my sys is doin rotunie check of drivers
it says fsck check of root failed
please can any one help wat happend

after starting system
i'm getting all these .....

checking drive/dev/sda1:8%(stage 1/5,147/1170)
/dev/sda1:Inodes that were a part of a corroupted orphan linked list found.
/dev/sda1:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTANCY ;run fsck MANUALY .
(ie with out -aor -p options)
fsck died with out exit status 4
checking drive/dev/sda1:9%(stage 1/5 , 153/1170)
*an automatic file system check(fsck)of rootfile system failed.
a manual fsck must be performed then the system system restared
the fsck should be performed in readd only mode
*the root file system is currently mounted in read only mode
a maintaince shell is now been started
after performing the maintance press controll -D
to terminate the maintance shell and restart ...

i'm gettin all these after startin my system ...
please help me as i'm new to linux

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#1

Hi!

The first thing to do is to follow fsck's suggestion: run it manually.

I guess that when you have this error message you get access to a command line prompt. Just try to type:

fsck /dev/sda1

the disk will be checked and (hopefully) repaired. Then press control-D and the system should restart.

The first thing to do next is to save all your important data (on a CD, flash drive, whatever). Sometimes, errors when checking drives are due to hard disks about to die.

Hope this helps!

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

It is not recommended to run fsck on mounted drives. Please boot the LiveCD and open a terminal. For more information about fsck options please type

sudo fsck

This will check all partitions on you machine listed in your /etc/fstab file

Hope this helps

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#3

For some reasons there seem to be severe problems with your file system and the automatic repair failed.

You should see a command line prompt, like this
 $>

Type
  fsck -C /dev/sda1

When it is finished you are back at the command line propt pree Ctrl-D or type
 exit
and the system will reboot.

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modmadmike (modmadmike) said : 		#4

This happened to me: my battery died while writing to my SDHC card and it would not mount so i put it in /etc/fstab, restarted and hit CTRL+D a few times after the fsck error and it booted.

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bOm (bompidom) said : 		#5

Thank you Florian Diesch!!!

I had the same problem now but I just did what you said and now I'm up going again :)
You're the best!!! Thx Thx Thx :):)

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