From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   > On this HP 6730b Laptop, I multi-boot Win7/MD2009.1/MD2010.1/MD2012/MG2   
   > and have my Home in a separate mount (SD8) so that all the linux's can   
   > use it!   
   >   
   > By default it boots into MD2009.1 but a couple of days ago, MD2009.1   
   > died (which is why I'm posting this using Win7). Today I finally have   
   > time to check things out. Sure enough, MD2009.1 wouldn't boot, so I   
   > re-installed it, but it still would not boot, nor any of the Linux's.   
   >   
   > This time, though, I actually looked at what the system was telling me!!   
   > Lots of lines of no real interest, I hope, then.....   
   >   
   > (from the screen)   
   > Checking filesystem   
   > /dev/sd8 contains a file system with errors check forced (gets to approx   
   > 32%)   
   > Inode that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.   
   > /dev/sd8: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES; RUN fsck MANUALLY   
   > (i.e. without -a and -p options)   
   >   
   > I've tried booting to the MD2009.1 DVD, but I cannot see anything there   
   > that will fix my Home mount. I've tried to run "fsck" but I expect I'm   
   > not getting the correct syntact.   
   >   
   > Can anyone give me a workable plan to help me re-claim my Home mount??   
   > (Treat me gentle!!)   
   >   
   > TIA   
   >   
   > Daniel   
      
   O.K., reading one of the threads in the a.o.l.mageia group has given me   
   the format of the fsck command, so I'll use my MD2009.1 DVD to get me to   
   a terminal, then I'll issue fsck /dev/sa8 and see if that fixes things!!   
      
   Daniel   
      
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