[svlug] fsck on HD booted from CD???

[Skip Evans]

Hey again all,

After some googling I tried the following:

fsck -y /dev/ad0

and got

fsck: Could not determine file system type

Also tried

fsck -y /dev/ad0s1

and got the same thing.

Not sure what file type to specify with the -t option.

Skip

Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been installing Xubuntu, which I am really 
> liking, on our workstations here in the office 
> today, and I ran into a snag with one.
> 
> It kept getting errors on the HD during several 
> install tries, so I figured it might help to run fsck.
> 
> (Sorry, I didn't write down the error, but it 
> certainly read like a HD sector glitch kind of 
> thing, probably a bad spot that maybe fsck could 
> take care of)
> 
> Anyway, the partial install now has the machine 
> unbootable from the HD, and the only thing I can 
> get to boot at all is a Live CD of Freesbie 1.1.
> 
> It is now booted, and I would like to run fsck on 
> the HD, except the fstab file is empty for the 
> this live CD boot.
> 
> How can I run fsck, or some other way to check 
> out/clean up the hard drive?
> 
> Thanks!
> Skip

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