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Article #921will this help
From: gary
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:23
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:23
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Hi all as some of you nice people may know I am having trouble with my computer it was playing up so i rebooted it and a heap of text came up this is what the text said sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes but i am a very low tech trucky with limited computer skills (very) checking drive/dev/sda : 13% (stage1/5 119/603 checking drive /dev/sda1 :14% (stage 1/5 176/603 /dev/sda1:inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found /dev/sda1 unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually (I.E.without -a or-p options) fsck died with exit status4 checking drive /dev/sda1(stage 15% 131/603 *an automatic file system check (fsck)of the root file system failed a manual fsck must be performed then the system restarted the fsck must be performed in maintenance mode without the file system mounted in read only mode a maintenance shell will now be restarted after performing system maintenance press control d to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system bash:no job control in this shell bash:lesspipe :comand not found command: command not found bash: the: command not found bash:dircolors: command not found bash: command: command not found bash: the: command not found root@gary-desktop:~# I have no idea what all this means not a clue how to do what it asks me to do. So please be gentle with me as i had to write this down and then 1 finger type it up cannot copy and past this stuff bugger I have some stuff i was hopping to recover i did not know about back ups saving copying data but now do thank to all in my previous post bought a external hard drive today from tandy will use that for saving stuff for when this next happens Thank to all once again Gary P.S.got to buy wife a laptop she is still spitting is dell a good brand
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,21ce24026a1f08ea,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:23:39 +0000 From: gary <glralph@tpg.com.au> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Subject: will this help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.243.171.251 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.243.171.251 Message-ID: <48cfa54b$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1221567819 123.243.171.251 (16 Sep 2008 22:23:39 +1000) Lines: 39 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!212.101.4.254.MISMATCH!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!not-for-mail