Re: [tlug] Linux crashed, won't start up. Recovery?

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Birkir,
>
> Thank you for responding.
>
> > fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1
>
> I ran this on the partition in question:
>
> fsck.ext3 /dev/sda4
>
> And it says:
>
> /dev/sda1: clean (and something about how many files and blocks)
>
> But rebooting ends up at the same error message.
>
> Is there anything more aggressive I can do scan and repair the disk?

did it return straight away without scanning everything.  If so through 
an -f to force it to do a full scan i.e.

fsck.ext3 -f /dev/hda1

Edward