OS Error on Boot

[Karl F. Larsen]

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wade at wadesmart.com wrote:
> 20090708 1520 GMT-5
> 
> I was using GIMP, opened a image that was 2GB in size and my system became 
> unresponsive. I waited about ten minutes to see if it would recover and then 
> finally did a hard boot. Now the system is doing its self check at start and it 
> has errors:
> 
> This is what I can see on the screen:
> 
> Checking drive /dev/sdb6: 21% (stage 1/5, 175/573)
> eRROR READING BLOCK 5755204 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in 
> short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 1433606.
> 
> /dev/sdb6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

	You should run from your login to the point you get to:

$ fsck /dev/sdb6

This will correct any errors it can and either end normally, or it will
tell you where your hard disk is bad.


73 Karl




> fsc died with exit status 4
>     [fail]
> 
> *File system check failed
> A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable.
> Please repair the file system manually.
> *A maintenance shell will not be started.
> CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and result system boot.
> bash: no job control in this shell
> bash: groups: command not found
> bash: leespipe: command not found
> bash: Command: command not found
> bash: The: command not found
> bash: dircolors: command not found
> bash: Command: command not found
> bash: The: command not found
> root at wadesmart:~#
> 
> That is all that is on the screen.
> 
> Wade
> 
> 


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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