>> My brother's Debian system suddenly says on attempt to boot, "/dev/sda1: >> UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:Runfsck manually", and, "inodes that were part of >> a corrupted orphan linked list found." >> >> He enters "fsck" or "fsck /dev/sda1", and in a short while gets fsck >> identifying it's version, and nothing else. Tha appears to take place >> from (initramfs) and Busybox. An attempt to reboot just starts the >> problem all over again. >> >> We'd be grateful for help with this. Thanks. >> > hello, > > fsck -fy /dev/sda1 is probably what you want
Then again, after the "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY", the `-f` flag to `fsck` shouldn't be needed. This is weird. Stefan