fsck

sachin1361 · 03-03-2007, 07:13 AM

My Linux ES4 server was running smoothly but just a minute be4, i ran fsck command...and it get crashed. I know running fsck may corrupt the file system and it did the same. Now i enter in rescue mode, but sysimage was not mounted.

is there a way to restore my server and files in that partition.

Jaqui · 03-03-2007, 08:23 AM

If you don't have a backup of the system, your best bet is to boot to runlevel 1 and run fsck on the partition.
it WILL fix the problems, but you may wind up losing so much data from the partition in the process that you have to rebuild the system.

if you have a recent backup, format the partition and restore it from the backup, the format removing all the corrupted files so you have a working system again.