After a power cut my machine cannot boot

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Wed Sep 9 19:19:59 UTC 2015


On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 19:56:02 +0100
Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> "/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short".
> >> >
> >> > Have you repaired your crashed filesystems already?
> >> > If you have, try "dnf reinstall libidn libidn2".
> >>
> >> Thanks for your reply, Heinz.
> >>
> >> What can I do to repair the filesystem?
> >
> > first run (as root) fdisk -l and paste the output here.
> 
> Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately, I cannot paste any output here, as I do
> not have a graphical console on the problematic machine -- it cannot
> boot in graphical mode.
> 
> Paul

ok, but the point is to know what fs needs repair; fdisk must show the
filesystem type, yes? then fsck can address that fs specifically, using
fsck -t <filesystem type>

D




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