hi ya francisco
if it gives you that "WARNING" ... do NOT e2fsck a mounted filesystem
what you probably need to do ...
assuming you have the following partitions
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/hda2 /tmp
/dev/hda3 /var
/dev/hda5 /usr
/dev/hda6 /home
when it comes up and asking/telling you to run fsck manually
- you should answer "y" to any questions it ask
unless you know how to fix it without the e2fsck ap
- if you get too many (hundreds) errors on sequential inodes
than that partition is toast ... re-format it and restore from
backup
#
# there is no guarantee that this will fix the problem but
# you dont have much choice ..
#
# these same problems (semi-corrupted disk) will occur if you
# hit the power or reset switches ( not just from power outage )
#
---
--- to fix things up:
---
- NOTE ... fix / last ( and do it after mounting it "read-only"
NOTE ... do NOT e2fsck the swap partitions
- fix /tmp
root# e2fsck /dev/hda2
- fix /var
root# e2fsck /dev/hda3
- fix /usr
root# e2fsck /dev/hda5
- fix /home
root# e2fsck /dev/hda6
- now fix / -- Important to use the right -o options
root# mount -o ro,remount /dev/hda1 /
root# e2fsck /dev/hda
-- reboot and you should be happy camper
c ya
alvin
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Francisco Castellon wrote:
> Hello:
>
> sometime last night my power must have gone off and back on again, I
> came to my computer today in the morning to find it saying:
>
> /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; run fsck manually
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the
> root file system is currently mounted read only. To remount it
> read-write:
>
> # mount -n -o remount, rw /
>
> CONTROL -D will exit from this shell and reboot the system.
>
>
> So what am I supposed to do now? I really dont have any critical
> information in the computer and I wouldn't mind reinstalling again,
> however there are about 5 files that I would like to keep. What exactly
> am I supposed to do with "e2fsck"? what command should I run? is it
> possible to fix this and not have to reinstall? I ran the command:
> "mount -n -o remount, rw /" and then I got this message:
>
> warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended.
>
> so then I ran "e2fsck /" and I got this message:
>
> WARNING!!! running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE
> filesystem damage.
> do you want to continue [y/n]:
>
>
> So I typed no for now. what should I do at this point? what commands can
> I run? I would appreciatte any help you can give me. Thanx!
>
>
>
>
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