Jaunty Boot-up Problem

[Graham Todd]

On Mon, 25 May 2009 17:12:50 -0500
Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:

> The "screen full of text" is probably somewhat meaningful. It could be
> that your drive has some kind of corruption, for example.
[snipped]

Thanks, Steven, for replying so quickly.  I hope I can answer your
question!

This is the output in /var/log/fsck/checkfs/:

Log of fsck -C3 -R -A -a 
Tue May 26 16:07:01 2009

fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
/dev/sda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Error reading block 42270833 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  

/dev/sda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
	(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck died with exit status 4

Tue May 26 16:08:32 2009
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it then instructs me to key in Ctrl+D to continue the boot process.

I have 3 partitions on my hard drive:

sda1	holds the root folder and boot instructions
sda5	the /home folder with all my data
sda6	swap areaLog of fsck -C3 -R -A -a 
Tue May 26 16:07:01 2009

fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
/dev/sda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Error reading block 42270833 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  

/dev/sda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
	(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck died with exit status 4

Tue May 26 16:08:32 2009
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from the above output, /dev/sda5 (my home partition with all my
university essays, etc) appears to have an error.

Can anyone tell me how to check if there's an error in the data and
therefore a backup of the data will be only partially useful, or its
caused by a faulty hard drive so that I can just copy the whole /home
directory back?

Or is there a bug in Jaunty?

-- 

Graham Todd