On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, frans toruan wrote:
> 
> thanks for the advice, Richard.
> i've done that, but still fails.the response was as follows :
>       fsck.ext2 : Is a directory while trying to open /
>       Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 ( 9-Jan-1999 )
>       fsck : fsck.swap : not found
>       fsck : Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hda8.
> 
> could you give more hints on this message? did i lost my swap directory? do
> i have to reinstall?
> very many thanks for your attention.

Swap is not a filesystem so dont fsck it.
Use fsck on the root filesystem.

> 
> frans t.
> 
> 
> 
> >What you are doing is checking the filesystem but NOT correcting the
> >problems.
> >
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