Re: [Sheflug] fsck failure on SuSE System out in China - Assistance Appreciated

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob

Hope you are well... Call out the AA ?

On Friday 11 January 2013 12:21:56 Robert Holland wrote:
> I had a report this morning that a 6 year old SuSE system located in
> Shanghai is refusing to start up - failing on fsck with the file
> system mounted read only. It is currently prompting for root
> password and suggesting the file system is remounted read/write.
> 
> There are only novice users out there.

Is it ReiserFS or.. ext3 or what ? See also....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7lEP6VvIiM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT____CPR_FOR_YOUR_COMPUTER&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

This is a good start.  They should be able to get it back up with 
these. There might also be some documentation in here that could be 
helpful...

http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page
http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/linux/suse

I'd be inclined to switch to Ubuntu Server.  The Chinese techs would 
find it easier to use.  More documentation online..

-- 
Richard

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