Author: Andy Harrison
Email: ajh@maine.rr.com
Web Page: http://www.nachoz.com
Date Submitted: Wed, Jan 14, 1998
Status: New Entry

Releases: all
Platform: all
Category:  Booting and LILO
Category Listing:  "RUN FSCK MANUALLY"

Issue

I got this error due to a power outage corrupting some files on 
my hard drive. I couldn't boot my machine, although it would allow
me into maintenance mode. When it performed the file system check,
it would fail and tell me to "RUN FSCK MANUALLY" which actually
didn't do squat when I ran it manually.

Response

Run: 

e2fsck -f /dev/xxxx
Where you replace "xxxx" with the device name of your Linux partition.

References

This information was from some helpful people on the redhat 
mailing list.