reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Joep L. Blom]

On 08-05-12 02:42, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 08/05/12 08:18, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> On 08-05-12 00:01, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>>> On May 7, 2012 4:54 PM, "Joep L. Blom" <jlblom at neuroweave.nl
>>> <mailto:jlblom at neuroweave.nl>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Memory checked also completely clean. However, all kind of read


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> What I suggest is that perhaps the file system is corrupted - nothing
> wrong with the HDD but the file system is stuffed. I assume that you are
> using ext4 or ext3 as your file system?
>
> The thing I would do is to boot into level 1 (init 1 at the grub menu
> when booting) and doing the e2fsck check on the partition where your
> system is installed. Seeing as how you also have a separate partition
> for your home then do same for it.
>
> But first read up on how to do this e2fsck check - you cannot do it on a
> partition which is mounted (unless you are prepared to possibly end up
> with even a bigger mess :-( .)
>
> BC
>
Basil,
Thanks for you answer. I think you're right. I had run fsck several 
times and every time it repaired the corrupt inodes. However, after I 
restarted the system it ran for some  time and then the same problems 
occurred again. I had thought to repair it by upgrading to 12.04 but 
during that process the installation hung and I have a half installed 
12.04 so I think I have to install a completely new system. However, I 
haven't found out how to install the new system and keep my home 
partition. If you can give me some help with that I would be very 
grateful. I think also that I won't install 11.10 but 12.04 after I have 
used Unetbootin for storing it on an USB-stick.
Joep