unattached inode, unable to boot

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Hi,

I cannot boot the Opensuse 11.1. filesystem checked is forced and I got this message:

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/dev/sda3: Unattacked inode 4579345
/dev/sda3: unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually
…

I’ve got a dual boot so I’m not in such a hurry, I did a back up and so on.

How should I procede?

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> How should I procede?

run fsck manually

for more detail see man fsck

and, remember fsck must be run against only UNmounted drives (so, plan
for that)…

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that’s the thing, I don’t think I’m able to do it myself. Is there any detailed fsck tutorial I can use? Would a new instalation solve this?

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Boot up with the installation media and run the Repair subsystem.

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Thx for the suggestion: I had alredy tried and it asks me again to run fsck manually

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Boot up with the Rescue System. This gives you a console session. Then run fsck manually, like this:

fsck /dev/sda1

Assuming /dev/sda1 is the one that needs to be checked, change the name if it is another partition. Hopefully it will fix the problem. At the end reboot and restart as normal. It the problem persists you may have disk hardware problems.

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ok guys, thx, I did it and everything goes fine!

For those like me, some useful links:
How to run fsck on a Linux file system | %/category_title%/ | Linux Tutorial
Repairing Linux ext2 or ext3 file system
fsck(8): check/repair file system - Linux man page