Need to fix badly-mounted partition.

[ian mooney]

hi ive been having similar problems..... i have am dual booting windows and 
ubuntu but when i have left a windows session and tried to reboot into 
ubuntu i keep getting an error message and the instruction to run fsck 
manually. then when its supposodly fixed i "startx" and it takes me to a 
empty desktop. i have to physically restart my pc to get back to my desktop. 
never had this problem before untill last week.

>From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
>Reply-To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions 
><kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Need to fix badly-mounted partition.
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:49:56 -0400
>
>Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I have on that disk:
> > hda2: /
> > hda3: /home/user/pictures
> > hda5: swap
> > hda6: /home
> >
> > All except for hda3 are nessacary for booting. How do I know which
> > partition is 'bad'?
>
>I thought you said that it happened on your ~/music partition.  Is that a
>partition, or not?
>
>It's guaranteed that the reported problem is not on hda5, because a swap
>partition is not an ext2/ext3 partition.
>
> > And what does it mean to fsck a disk? I know that fsck is a partition
> > tool, but what is actually happening? Thanks.
>
>It's not, it's a File System ChecK tool (ie, it doesn't work on 
>_partitions_
>it works on _file systems_ - which is why it does nothing on your swap
>partition).
>
>go to single user mode.  umount -a (which won't dismount /, but worry about
>that later).  Then, for each ext2/ext3 partition:
>  fsck -A -R -s -r -t ext2,ext3
>
>man fsck so that you understand all the options I gave you.  Once you're
>happy with the results of that:
>  mount / -o ro,remount
>  fsck -r /
>
>Then you should probably reboot, as the easiest way to get back to normal.
>--
>derek
>
>
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