[ubuntu-za] Blown Disk

[Wayne Abroue]

Hi

Doesnt sound like your disk is gone or needing a reinstall, just a bit of
reshuffling  and linux magic needed. HAve you tried

sudo fsck /dev/***   the partition or drive.?

Wayne A



On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It seems that the sudden power failures caused by load shedding has
> somehow caused some disk damage. When I tried to boot this morning, I got a
> grub message that it was trying to read / write beyond hda limits. I booted
> from the original  DVD, but when I try to look at the root drive where the
> OS is located I get "Unable to access 20 GB volume" and lots of error
> messages including "mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/sda1.
>
> So it does not look good.
>
> Fortunately all my files are on another Home drive and I can access them -
> I also have full backup (although Murphy told me not to backup last week so
> I am missing some stuff ...)
>
> My first thought is to simply re-instal on the root drive while keeping my
> Home directory alone. But I thought that before I did that I would ask if
> there is perhaps something else I can try - and also ask whether my
> diagnosis is correct?
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> (I am not sure that I have used the right terminology here - I hope that I
> have been clear enough that you can still understand).
>
> Bill
>
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