Topic: Server crash Urgent linux help needed

[ross maugham]

Hi

The cleaners just knocked the power switch for my e-smith server, now when it boots I get the following message

Inode 191617 has imagic flag set
/: Unexpected Inconsistency; Run fsck manually
                       (ie without -a or -p options)

*** An error occured during file system check
***Dropping you to a shell; the sytem will reboot when you leave the shell

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup)


Giving the root password takes me to

(repair filesystem)1#

However I have no idea on what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.

Please post here as the e-smith server is my mail server so I'm not receiving any mail

Thanks
Ross

[Lloyd Keen]

try at the prompt
# fsck /dev/hda5

[Ross]

Lloyd

thanks for the help, unfortunaly I get the following error message

fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hda5

Thanks
Ross

[Jay]

Shouldn't that be

fsck /dev/hda1

?

[Jay]

DOH...stuck in windoze mode again...

fsck \dev\hda1

[Jay]

...I was right the fist time LOL ...I need a holiday

[Ross]

Thanks for the help, however I bit the bullet and have redone the server, hopefully not losing too much e-mail

Thanks
Ross

[blah blah]

It's: "fsck /"

Then answer yes to all the questions.

Then type "reboot" to reboot the server.

[Duane Rinehart]

The last time I answered "yes" to all the questions it deleted links between the server-manager and files so no users or ibays showed up in the server manager.  I don't know if the ext3 file system will eventually resolve this problem or if there is a better way.  I've already lost one server...

Duane