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Hi,

I don't know what I did with my Linux RH8.0 but here is what happens when I boot up the system. Please, let me know what I should do in this situation. I'm new to this and if you care to answer please explain as you're talking to someone who doesn't know much of Linux.

EXT3-fs error (device ide3(34,4)):ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=3457096, block=6914056

And then further down I get:

Checking root filesystem
/contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Error reading block 1441798 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)
while doing inode scan.

/:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p options)
 

you have to enter root password and then run e2fsck this way
e2fsck /dev/{name of partition with linux}

for example
e2fsck /dev/hda1
or
e2fsck /dev/hdc1

then e2fsck will ask you some confirmation to repair filesystem, if you press Y at every question and reboot you are probably safe.

NOTE: if you made more than one root partition is better to chek them all
 

Thanks for the help. I just did it today. Loaded Knoppix Linux and from there ran fsck on the root partition. Seems to be ok now.
 

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