Fsck help

[Billy Roy]

I'm trying to boot up and older machine that has Red Hat on it. It is giving me and unclean shutdown then going into the file check. It comes up with a message UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: run fsck manually. I have tried to run fsck with serveral keys, it says changes made. When I reboot I get the same message. Some one gave me this older computer to learn about linux. Seems like it will be the hard way!!!

[mychl]

Here is a link to a forum search I did for 'fsck manually'



Your answer is in there.....HERE (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=154104&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending)

[mychl]

Also, welcome to LNO, and welcome to linux...

You might want to try fsck /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 depending on what your / is on.

Good Luck and again, welcome aboard!

[bwkaz]

How are you shutting down? You can't just hit the power button, if that's what you're doing...