Input/output ERROR FC3
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 3 04:36:40 UTC 2005
James Wilkinson wrote:
> KIMARIO FAWKES wrote:
>
>>I attempted to run ls -1 /etc/mtab, I got
>>
>>ls: /etc/mtab: Input/output error
>>ls: lsattr: No such file or directory
>
>
> Worrying.
>
> But that was "ls -l" not "ls -1" (minus lower case L, not number 1)
> and
> lsattr /etc/mtab
> no separate ls command.
>
> I'd also run memtest (boot from the install CD and type in memtest at
> the first prompt) and (in Fedora), as root,
> smartctl -H /dev/hda
>
> smartctl -l error /dev/hda
>
> smartctl -t short /dev/hda
> which will do a low-level check on the disk: wait a minute for that to
> run, then do
> smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
> to see the results.
>
> That should check for hardware errors. Running
> touch /forcefsck
> and rebooting should (take a bit longer, but) make sure that the root
> filesystem is in good shape, too.
I would like to add the following if the OP decides to boot up using the
rescue disk:
First: boot using: linux rescue
Second: type in: fdisk -l /dev/hda (or /dev/<where your Linux drive is>
(replace the drive's location)
Third: run: fsck /dev/hda(replace with the partition # of EACH Linux
partition).
Fourth: If you get no errors in the third step, reboot using the rescue
disk and mount the file system.
Fifth: Check the files above. They should exist and be readable.
James McKenzie
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