New 8.04 install fail on booting

[nepal google]

On Thu 20 November 2008, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM, nepal google 
<nepal.roade at googlemail.com>wrote:
> > Now when I start
> > Kubuntu 8.04 I get a fail on file system check and a
> > terminal/console? is opened for me to run a manual
> > check. I don't as I have no idea what to do.
>
> This is very frustrating.  Unfortunately, it is difficult
> in practice to make it clear to people what needs to be
> done in these cases.
>
> You are supposed to type in:
>
> fsck /dev/sda6
>
> and let that fix the problems.  Running that same command
> during the boot process was unable to fix the problems,
> but at the console you drop to the same command will
> almost always work.

Is it because fsck gets run without the parameters used 
during the boot process? IIRC there was a message saying 
something to the effect not to use -p -a.

> You can also run this command after booting if you don't
> need to be using /dev/sda6.
>
>
> In a console, type in:
>
> sudo umount /dev/sda6
> sudo fsck /dev/sda6
> sudo mount /dev/sda6
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks John,

that partition is my home partition, so I'll wait until I 
next reboot and do as you suggest. I've had this happen 
before with other distros too and never knew what to do, 
now I do I will remember this. Thanks.

nepal.