Buffer I/O Error

[Hakim Singhji]

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Hi All,

I am having a problem... my son knocked my Thinkpad off of the desk. Now
the problem is at boot-time. The system tries to run fsck however at
47.8% it pauses and this error messages comes up:

Console:
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Buffer I/O Error on device hda9, logical block 9896110
Buffer I/O Error on device hda9, logical block 9896111
Buffer I/O Error on device hda9, logical block 9896112
Buffer I/O Error on device hda9, logical block 9896113
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It goes on like this for around 100 block ID's and then into single user
mode. I've tried to run fsck from single user mode while unmounted. By
the way hda9 is /home.

I'm not sure what is going on however the system says that this can be
repaired manually. How? Does anyone have any comments or recommendations.

Best,
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Hakim Singhji
New York University

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
		-- Paul Gauguin
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