Linux crash aid request

["Colin Price (EML)" <Colin Price eml ericsson se>]

Came in this morning :
	Our reliable Linux box had crashed.
	It had had a good innings (a couple of months).
	Anyway, the following is what I recorded.
	Any help would be appreciated (the more immediate the better).

	Version :
		$ # uname -a
		Linux inbasdev5.ericsson.se 2.2.1 #3 Wed Feb 10 13:29:12 GMT 1999 i686 unknown

	Message on bootup :

		/dev/hda1 : <clean message so assumed ok>
		/dev/hda7 : <clean message so assumed ok>
		/dev/hda6 : <clean message so assumed ok>
		[/sbin/fsk.ext2] fsk.ext2 -a /dev/hda8
		/dev/hda8 : contains a file system with errors, check forced
		/dev/hda8 : Inode 4039 has illegal blocks
		/dev/hda8 : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY. RUN fsck MANUALLY.

		An error has occurred during the file system check
		Dropping you into a shell the system will reboot and you will leave the shell
		Give root password for maintenance 
		(or type ctrl D for normal start-up)

	CTRL-D = boots up and gives the above message
	on root login, drops to a shell :
		$ df -k = shows 1 file system : /root

		$ fsk -a /dev/hda8
		There were several! areas 'cleared'
		This mainly included the /var directory (incl. some /var/timesheet sections)
		(
		For ~25minutes, fsck was in a loop on :
			junkbuster.<number>.gz.<NEXT>
			where	<number> = 1..4
				<NEXT> = (<number>.gz.<NEXT>|<number>.gz)
		)

		but I am very concerned since I have no log files to trace what happened.

Any help is very appreciated.
Regards,
Colin PRICE.