upgrade problem 7.10 to 8.04

[stoppage]

On an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 Ubuntu refused the restart....on a maintenance shell it registered „fsck died with exit status 8...file system check failed, please repair manually“. Apparently its a problem with hda7, home folder. Can somebody please help me out here?

[taurus]

Did it drop you into a prompt? If it did, run


fsck /dev/hda7
if that is the one that it complains.

Otherwise, you need to boot with Ubuntu LiveCD and run fsck from there.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fsck /dev/hda7
Make sure it is really /dev/hda7 because it could be /dev/sda7!


sudo fdisk -l

[stoppage]

fsck shows partition is ok....

Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda7' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
Leaves 1381
Internal nodes 10
Directories 1310
Other files 7356
Data block pointers 141685 (2568 of them are zero)
Safe links 0
###########
reiserfsck finished at Sun Mar 8 04:57:40 2009

[stoppage]

The solution....this upgrade changes partition designations. fdisk -l "sees" sda and sdb, so hda... doesn't exist. Proper info needs to be then inserted in fstab. Solved...thank you