[ubuntu-in] filesystem got corrupted after filesystem check.........

[stranger in black.....]

he is using ext3 partition..........

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:06:56 +0530
> "stranger in black....." <gnuise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a strange error in my friend's pc...... He was up with
> > jaunty.... But due to a sudden power failure, the system got
> > crashed........ After that the system is not booting and an error
> > message is showing * Kernel panic - not syncing: Attemptrd to
> > kill init! Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty)*.........
> >
> > He used a live cd to check the filesystem using fsck
> > command....... But after that many folders and files like /etc/
> > got missed..........
> >
> > how to solve this?.
> [...]
>
> Sorry, but you probably can't solve this. A power failure while
> filesystem writes are going on can corrupt it, though machines
> should be less prone to this with a journalling filesystem. What
> filesystem was being used?
>
> It is also in general a bad idea to run fsck, and blindly answer
> 'y' to all prompts. At this point, I think that you will need to
> reinstall the system. If /home was on a different partition, it
> might still be recoverable.
>
> Regards,
> Gora
>
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