I am using Redhat Linux 7.0 Recently, Linux crashed because of an error during file system check on boot up. I can only login as root. I tried running fsck but it does nothing. Any ideas on what to do?

You can only run fsck on an unmounted file system. Can you start Xwindows under root? if so can you run progs? could be that your /home could just be lost/corupt - is it still there?

I get the following message when booting up: / contains a file system with errors, check forced. /: Duplicate or bad block in use! . . . /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY When I login as root and use the startx command, I get the error message: xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority But everything under /home seems to still be there when I do a ls -laR

Hi, I have two HD´s in my computer (C and D). I have the Windows98 installed in C and I´d like to install the WindowsXP in D. So, when I tried to install the WindowsXP in D I got a message saying that the HD C is corrupted and it aborts the installation... Please, how can I know what is corrupted in drive C and how can I restore it ? Thanks, /Adayl.

The same evil Linux demon visited my system too. I thought I would have to completely re-install. Here's how I fixed the problem... When your file system is corrupt (for one reason or another), you get the following message: /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY Typing in "fsck" only results in the equally useless message: Parallelizing fsck version 1.18(11-Nov-1999) The reason you get no response is that you haven't specified the device to check. So, here's what you do. At the prompt, type the following: fsck /dev/hda5 This specifies the particular system for fsck to check. The rest is interactive, and it should clean up the file system for you. It might run a little sluggish immediately after, so you will want to reboot. Hope this helps. For more information, check out this website (this is where I found it): www.attenza.com/elinux/step/1,,35862+26179+25950+22101,00.html

The same evil Linux demon visited my system too. I thought I would have to completely re-install. Here's how I fixed the problem... When your file system is corrupt (for one reason or another), you get the following message: /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY Typing in "fsck" only results in the equally useless message: Parallelizing fsck version 1.18(11-Nov-1999) The reason you get no response is that you haven't specified the device to check. So, here's what you do. At the prompt, type the following: fsck /dev/hda5 This specifies the particular system for fsck to check ('hda5' may not be what you need). The rest is interactive, and it should clean up the file system for you. It might run a little sluggish immediately after, so you will want to reboot. Hope this helps. For more information, check out this website (this is where I found it): www.attenza.com/elinux/step/1,,35862+26179+25950+22101,00.html