linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux 9.1 update

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux 9.1 update

Thanks Roy. I appreciate the help. I'll probably wait until tomorrow to try
this. I'll let you guys know what happens.

Yvette

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Ubuntu is having trouble mounting one or more of your file systems. It
> could
> be that the file system has something irregular that needs to be checked,
> possibly do to a hard boot (poweinr down without exiting) or power outage
> sometime in the past. It may need to be checked with fsck.
>
> You can try to skip the drive by doing Ctrl-D as suggested if it isn't
> critical to getting Ubuntu running. If you have only one drive or partition
> then this is not likely the case, but I will mention it in case you have
> multiple drives, such as usb drives or keys that could be the guilty party.
> If it is a critical file system you can try to run fsck on that drive.
>
> http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/fsck.htm
>
> This is not probably something that you feel comfortable doing, but you
> don't have a lot of options. You can try to resolve the problem with fsck
> -y
> sdaX with X being the drive number 1, 2, 3 etc. or you can try to
> re-install
> Ubuntu. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
>
> Roy
>
>

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