[KLUG Members] hd errors

[bill]

Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:

>>With the incessant power outages over the weekend its not surprising 
> 
> Yes, it has been fun.  But we've only lost one router and one label
> printer so far;  which isn't so bad compared to previous years.
> 
>>that one of my RH9 systems started reporting errors.  It was on the 
>>bench testing some new equipment so was not on battery backup.  My 
>>question: what is the error and how can it be fixed?
> 
> This means the file-system is corrupted.  You might be able to fix it
> with an fsck.

fsck, ok.
> 
>>EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory # 
>>4685826 rec_len % 4!=0 - offset=0, inode=4294967295, rec_len=65535, 
>>nam-len=255
> 
> 
> If possible, backup the data, recreate the fs, and restore; that is, if
> a routing fsck doesn't fix it.

A "routing fsck", what's that?

And fsck complains to high heavens if I attempt to run it on a mounted 
filesystem.  I'm not sure how to run it on the boot partition without it 
being mounted.  Can you boot from a floppy or something and access it?