Filesystem errors !! How to fix ???

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Thu Apr 27 14:32:14 UTC 2006


Reon Toerien wrote:
> Ubuntu detects that the /home filesystem is corrupted at every single
> boot. It does it's little scan, seems to fix it but a few mins into me
> using kubuntu I start getting error msg that i cannot write to /home.
> I reboot and the process repeats itself over again in a endless cycle.

Possibly your partitions are overlapping.  What is the output of

  sudo sfdisk -lV /dev/sdb

(in a terminal)?  Check the start and end locations of the partitions.
If there is an overlap (apart from an 'Extended' partition and the
following logical ones), you will have to repartition the disk.

Toby




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