Power cut off before shutdown

["Jim Schweizer" <schweiz@example.com>]

Hi all,

I just got back from class to find that during my absence the power 
had been temporily cut off in my neighborhood while my Linux box was 
running.

Linux rebooted and toasted the filesystem on /dev/sda1 (where this 
version of Linux lives. The message is:

/dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY

I rebooted to my backup on /dev/hda1 and tried to e2fsck the 
unmounted /dev/sda1, but no go. There's nothing in the man page about 
doing this manually - neither the -a or -p tags work.

If I reboot to /dev/sda1 and wait for the (none) login: to timeout  
Linux continues to boot to the (wormhole) login: and everything seems 
to run fine. Rebooting just brings up the same situation time and 
again.

Now what?

Thanks from a panicing pre-intermediate.

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Jim Schweizer                           JPS Solutions
 http://www.harenet.or.jp/personal/schweiz/
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