hda6 filesystem cannot be checked

[obidiah]

I don't know how to fix this issue, but it has knocked my box out of commission. I rebooted my Mandrake 8.0 box. Upon restart it told me that the hda6 partition filesystem could not be verified and then asked if I wanted to fix it. I clicked yes and it dumped me to a command line in single user mode. I can mount the drive, but I cannot continue with the start up or umount it. If I do restart, then I get the same error again. If I select no (when it asks if I want to repair the filesystem) I get dumped again to single user.
How do I go about repairing this sort of issue?

Thanks in advance!

[7]

Don't mount the partition and try fsck /dev/hda6

[obidiah]

this is the exact error upon startup:
"Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the error: Yes; No"

No matter what you do it dumps to
'give root user password for mainenance(or type Control-D for normal startup)'

I tried fsck and got this:
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19
e2fsck 1.19 blah blah
/dev/hda6: clean, 10583/196224 files. 2180403/391694 blocks

which is the same message I get before mandrake dumps me into single user mode.
Does anyone know what this means and more importantly how to fix it?
thanks again.

[slapNUT]

If it's not your root directory you can temporarily remove the entry from /etc/fstab. This will allow you to boot normally then you can possibly find the problem.

[obidiah]

Thanks! What kind of problem should I be looking for?

[TheMuso]

Firstly, what is /dev/hda6 used for?
Secondly, have you tried fsck -f /dev/hda6? This will force a check, and just might do the trick.

BTW: What file system? Ext2 or reiserfs?

[ 29 December 2001: Message edited by: DJ-dOoK ]