Help Repair Linux Root partition - Urgent!

[Hpro]

Our linux Server version Red Hat 7.2 went down the drain - the hard drive had either some bad spots (SCSI) or a program Bugged - now we can`t access the drive - as wee need to back it up -

When booting up it tell us your system was shutdown uncleanly dsck forced then it goes up to 22.9% of the Root Partition and there it jumps out with the error can`t repair the drive automatically - it tells us to manually check the device - tried quite many things but all I got it jumped out of the reapir process - mostly because of a wrong command line -

Anyone there with the command line - it`s definately the root Partition which is bad -

Thanks alot
Hpro

[MaXimum SMOKE]

It's been too long for me to really remember. Since the invent of journaled file systems, this is a much rarer event. I think you have to boot with a rescue disk, so your root partition is unmounted by the operating system, then run the file system ck program. You may have to load 7.2 to a spare machine in order to get a rescue disk built with the same kernel version. I believe you are in level 2 at this time. Sorry, can't remember much more , Hpro.

[Hpro]

Ok the command line is - fsck /dev/sda1 & enter
Hpro

[Floppyman]

Just a tip for other users out there: To do this you will need to know the root password.