Topic: whats fsck?

[Dano]

When starting my SME server, I get

**An error occured during the file system check.
** dropping you to a shell : the system will reboot when you leave the shell.
give root password for maintenance
(or type control d for normal startup)

I type the password and get

(Repair filesystem) 1#

It does nothing after that, if i try control d it puts me back in the same place.

it says run fsck manually but i have no clue what is going on or how to do that.

what do i do?

any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Iain]

had a similar problem and am a newby to Linux and found that if u type "fsck man" it will give u the syntax u need

[Dano]

then what do i do?

i really have no clue where to go from there

thanks

[Luke Drumm]

The short of this error message is that SME disovered some serious problems with the Hard drive when it attempted to start up.

fsck is a utility for checking and reparing files that may currently be in a 'weird' state due to unexpected power outages etc.
(Unexpected power outages seem to be the most common cause for this situation.)

From memory, to run fsck all you need to do is type in something like:

fsck hda

(where hda is the file system you want check).
In this case 'hda', I suspect, is actually the file system you want to check as its the one that SME seems to be complaing about.

Regards,
Luke