/home: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

> [email protected] wrote:
> > Dear there,
> > After I reboot the server, I got the following error
> > message.
> >
> >
> > "/home: The filesystem size (according to the
> > superblock) is 17771840 blocks
> > The physical size of the device is 8885945 blocks
> > Either the superblock or the partition table is likely
> > to be corrupt!
>
> It looks like you just lost half of your disk.  Do you
> remember the  original size of the /home partition?  Did
> you recently run fdisk and/or  try to create software
> RAID?
>
> This advice must be taken with a grain of salt, because
> your partition  and/or disk may be totally broken.  I hope
> you have good backups...
>
> First, try e2fsck -c /dev/hd? (where hd? is the actual
> partition of  /home).  What does that report?  You can
> also use resize2fs to shrink  the filesystem, but I'll let
> you read up on the man page.
>
> Forrest

Thank you!

I could not remember the original size of /home. I
remembered I created software RAID at the beginning when I
installed the OS ten month ago. And It worked well, but
suddenly one day student report they could not save their
edited files, I tried to reboot it could not and showed the
error:
/home : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY.

I tried e2fsck -c /dev/sdb1

After it finished, It still could not reboot.

Thanks alot!

Hailong