FC4 File system corrupted. Help!

[Lloyd Hayes]

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>I got the bug in my Thunderbird email the other day. Today, I decided
>> to un-install Thunderbird and re-install it using 'Yum Extender'
>> 
>> Bad move. Yum Extender froze while doing this. After letting it sit
>> for a half hour, I did a force quit on it.
>> 
>> Afterwards I tried loading Synaptic to do the same thing. It would
>> not start.
>> 
>> I logged out as a user, intending to log back in as root. I got a
>> small red screen approximate 800x600 pixels in size, and I get a
>> message that it can not load my graphical desktop. I had the line
>> commands only, and most of those are cut off by the outer blue
>> screen.
>> 
>> I rebooted.
>> 
>> I got the message that my file system was corrupted and Selinux was
>> preventing repairs. It stated that it had disabled selinux. It needed
>> my root password.
>> 
>> When I typed in the root password, I got this:
>> 
>> :repairing volume 1:
>> 
>> It is sitting there waiting for something, but I do not know what. If
>> I simply type in "yes", I see a bunch of odd characters appear on
>> that small red screen, then it goes blank. Nothing appears to be
>> happening with my hard drive.
>> 
>> I can really use some help to recover some files here.
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>at the :repairing volume 1: prompt...
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>e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1
>substitute freely for hda1 for other partitions or logical devices
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>Craig
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fsck reports too many bad blocks. It attempts to copy them, but I think 
that it is simply running out of room. I have an 18 GB partition for Win 
XP and a 10 GB partition for FC4. There was about 2 GB free the last 
time I looked at the FC4 partition.

I have a 2nd older laptop computer running FC3 which has not been 
updated recently. It works fine. I don't think that I'll update it all. 
I'm going to give up on FC4. It simply has too many problems...


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