There's really nothing Debian-Live specific to do. Just use the standard tools.
The documents at tldp.org are probably your best bet- there's probably no changes in how to repair ext2/3 filesystems since sarge. I don't know what the big picture is of what you are trying to accomplish but if it was me, I'd mount with '-o ro', rsync or tar off the important stuff, and reinstall. Fsck can repair a lot of stuff but to me a corrupt root inode is indication that there's probably been a lot of corruption and I wouldn't even bother trying to fix the partition. Oh, and before you trust this drive for your data again, make sure you test every sector, e.g. mkfs.ext3 -j -c -c (it's destructive, so don't skip ahead to this step!) Tony On 10/11/07, John Lauterbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right. My error. Things worked right after I rebooted from CD-ROM; > maybe loose nut at wheel. Bad news was that I could not boot from hard > drive because of a corrupt root inode as found by ext2fsck. > > This brings more opportunity. How do I fix this problem with Debian Live, > OR are things so bad that I need to reformat hard drive again. > > I would be glad to write help pages for you, but I don't know what I am > doing. > > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "John Lauterbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: Using Debian Live > > > > On 10/11/07, John Lauterbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> To Whom It May Concern: > >> > >> There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the > >> information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will > >> not > >> boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular, I would > >> like to run fsck on /dev/hda1 (or whatever it is called under Debian > >> Live). > >> Attempts to do that as well as similar activities on existing hard drives > >> seem to result in less than common error messages. > >> > >> Perhaps you can clarify the situation. > > > > Perhaps you can clarify the errors. > > > > I've had no such experiences. > > -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel