[mdlug] my laptop can't mount my file system (SuSE 11.1)

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ching-Yi Hsieh <cymed2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> My laptop can't mount the file system. The message  showed "fsck failed. Please
> repair manually any reboot." Please give me  some advice how to deal with it.

Boot a LiveCD (or USB), preferably the same distribution/version you
have installed.  Open a terminal and login as root ("sudo su" on
Ubuntu).  Then run fsck against the drive partiton (probably located
at /dev/sda1 or sdb1 or something).  Read the fsck manual page first
("man fsck").  You will probably want the -p option but it depends on
the problem and filesystem type.