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This morning my laptop froze. (IBM Thinkpad T60p, Ubuntu 8.10)<br>
DOn't have a live CD at hand since did all upgrades online.<br>
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I powered down and restarted and got the following message.<br>
Relatively new Linux user and not sure which is best way to proceed.<br>
Have a lot of information I cannot loose.<br>
Any suggestions? Proceed with manual fsck?<br>
Do you know a link to specific command instructions online?<br>
Any comments suggestions appreciated.<br>
Thank you much in advance.<br>
Emanuel<br>
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Message at boot time:<br>
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...<br>
checking drive /dev/sda4: 8% (stage 1/5, 35/282) over and over<br>
/dev/sda4: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found<br>
/dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY<br>
(i.e., without -a or -p options)<br>
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fsck died with exit status 4<br>
Checking drive /dev/sda4: 9% (stage 1/5, 37/282) [fail]<br>
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*An automatic filesystem check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed.<br>
A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted.<br>
The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the<br>
root filesystem mounted in read-only mode.<br>
The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only mode.<br>
A maintenance shell will now be started.<br>
After performing system maintenance press CONTROL-D<br>
to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system.<br>
give root password:<br>
bash: no job control in this shell</HTML>