Re: fsck prob

2003-09-02 Thread Ms Jenny Chang
cool, thanx guys. Jenny -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: fsck prob

2003-09-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:28, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:37:05 +1000 > Ms Jenny Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > when i boot into rescue mode, and run fsck it gives > > fsck 1.32 (09-NOV-2002) > > warning; couldn't open

Re: fsck prob

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:37:05 +1000 Ms Jenny Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i boot into rescue mode, and run fsck it gives > fsck 1.32 (09-NOV-2002) > warning; couldn't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory... > Hi, If you don't tell fsck which driv

fsck prob

2003-09-02 Thread Ms Jenny Chang
Hi, I'm having problems booting to linux. It crashed a couple of times, and checked root file system, and was ok. now it fails, and gives /:Unattached inode 997 /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY... [failed] when i boot into rescue mode, and run fsck it gives fsck 1.32 (09-NOV

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-17 Thread rm
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 01:14, Linux Tard wrote: > Regis > > did you ever try to specify a backup superblock? That > might have solved it for you. This would have been > the '-b' option. > > lt > > Yup lt, sure did. Even went through archives to find different backup superblocks. Like I sa

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-16 Thread Linux Tard
Regis did you ever try to specify a backup superblock? That might have solved it for you. This would have been the '-b' option. lt > > Perhaps so Cameron, but I spent a good deal of time > Saturday running > various combinations of fsck, and e2fsck with > various

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-16 Thread rm
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:25, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12:29 16 Jun 2003, rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Just to complete this thread. I solved this problem in a much simpler > | way. After some additional searching on Googly Groups, I tried running > | fsck -A /dev/hda2 a

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:29 16 Jun 2003, rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Just to complete this thread. I solved this problem in a much simpler | way. After some additional searching on Googly Groups, I tried running | fsck -A /dev/hda2 and answered yes to all the questions. When I exited | and reboot

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-16 Thread rm
chille, Thanks so much for your input. Just to complete this thread. I solved this problem in a much simpler way. After some additional searching on Googly Groups, I tried running fsck -A /dev/hda2 and answered yes to all the questions. When I exited and rebooted, it started - good as new!

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread achillemiele
On Saturday 14 June 2003 23:49, rm wrote: > Thanks again for your help, any other suggestions? > > regis Try changing in your fstab this lines: LABEL=/ / ex2 defaults1 1 with /dev/hda2 / ex2 defaults1 1 and LABEL=/boot

RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread rm
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:58, achillemiele wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 22:44, rm wrote: > > > This could be a problem. The complete line when I do cat /etc/fstab > > > > dev/hda5swapswapdefaults0 0 > > > > does this mean I'm still fscking with the wrong device? > > > > T

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
right answer to your e2fsck since it's > not ant ext2 fs but a swap partition. and while this won't help you much, and undoubtedly sounds harsh, if you don't appreciate that "fsck" is not meant to be used on a swap partition, you really aren't qualified to be mess

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread achillemiele
On Saturday 14 June 2003 22:44, rm wrote: > This could be a problem. The complete line when I do cat /etc/fstab > > dev/hda5 swapswapdefaults0 0 > > does this mean I'm still fscking with the wrong device? > > The complete output looks like this: > > LABEL=/ /

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread rm
On Saturday 14 June 2003 21:24, rm wrote: > Any ideas on how to correct the corrupt superblock, or otherwise correct > this? > > thanks in advance, > > regis What's your complete recorf i /etc/fstab? /dev/hda5 ??? Is it a ext2 or ext3 filesystem? Achille Thanks again, This

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread achillemiele
On Saturday 14 June 2003 21:24, rm wrote: > Any ideas on how to correct the corrupt superblock, or otherwise correct > this? > > thanks in advance, > > regis What's your complete recorf i /etc/fstab? /dev/hda5 ??? Is it a ext2 or ext3 filesystem? Achille -- redhat-list mail

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread rm
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 19:46, rm wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Obviously I'm not so sharp on picking up which > > drive is which. I ran e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda5 > > and got the following response: > > > > "WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread achillemiele
On Saturday 14 June 2003 19:46, rm wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Obviously I'm not so sharp on picking up which > drive is which. I ran e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda5 > and got the following response: > > "WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE > filesystme damage. > > Do y

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread rm
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:08, regis wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 10:51, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:40:09AM -0500, rm wrote: > > > > LABEL=/ > > LABEL=/boot > > /dev/fd0 > > none > > none > > /dev/hda5 > > /dev/cdrom &g

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:40:09AM -0500, rm wrote: > > LABEL=/ > LABEL=/boot > /dev/fd0 > none > none > /dev/hda5 > /dev/cdrom > > Then I did: fsck -y /dev/fd0 > > and it responded: > > fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Could not determine filesystem t

RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-14 Thread rm
Last night a storm knocked out power for a couple hours, and shut down two Redhat 7.1 systems on a small network. One booted up fine, the other, after reaching 93% "forced check" reported: FAILED and said to: "RUN fsck MANUALLY" After checking the archives of several Linux l

Re: fsck

2003-05-30 Thread Andrew Williams
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:58, Ramesh .T.S wrote: > Andrew what about ext2? I have ext2 and nfs mounted partition. is there > a way to clean only ext2 by making ne changes in rc.sysinit without > checking the nfs. > > Ramesh > grep fsck * rc.sysinit:# Mount /proc (done here so

Re: fsck

2003-05-29 Thread Ramesh .T.S
day, May 28, 2003 7:18 PM Subject: Re: fsck > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:17, Vano Beridze wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've got RedHat Linux 8.0 > > > > If I shutdown the system abnormally, the system promps to start fsck > > after reboot. How can I tell the

Re: fsck

2003-05-28 Thread Andrew Williams
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:17, Vano Beridze wrote: > Hello > > I've got RedHat Linux 8.0 > > If I shutdown the system abnormally, the system promps to start fsck > after reboot. How can I tell the system to start fsck without a 'Y' > confirmation at startup?

fsck

2003-05-28 Thread Vano Beridze
Hello I've got RedHat Linux 8.0 If I shutdown the system abnormally, the system promps to start fsck after reboot. How can I tell the system to start fsck without a 'Y' confirmation at startup? I don't want to confirm fsck run, I just want fsck to start automatically. Thank

Re: Question about automatic fsck every X times

2003-04-03 Thread Nick Lindsell
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 23:49, Gary Nielson wrote: > Is there a file I can look into that will tell me how many more reboots > before the filesystems are checked with fsck? I know my system checks > every six months or every 20 reboots, but how is that set and where > can you see

Question about automatic fsck every X times

2003-04-03 Thread Gary Nielson
Is there a file I can look into that will tell me how many more reboots before the filesystems are checked with fsck? I know my system checks every six months or every 20 reboots, but how is that set and where can you see the counter? Also, if you have a bad shutdown and when you boot up fsck

Re: severe fsck problem on bootup

2003-02-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Webmaster wrote: > Hi, got a very severe problem. I have two hard drives in my RS server > and I am getting the secondary drive removed. Here's the problem. > After the secondary drive is removed, the server fails to bootup > completely, crashing at fsck

Re: severe fsck problem on bootup

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Webmaster said: > Hi, got a very severe problem. I have two hard drives in my RS server and > I am getting the secondary drive removed. Here's the problem. After the > secondary drive is removed, the server fails to bootup completely, > crashing at fsck. sounds like the system

severe fsck problem on bootup

2003-02-28 Thread Webmaster
Hi, got a very severe problem. I have two hard drives in my RS server and I am getting the secondary drive removed. Here's the problem. After the secondary drive is removed, the server fails to bootup completely, crashing at fsck. The server boots up fine when the secondary drive i

Re: Auto Fsck without restart

2003-02-18 Thread Ramesh .T.S
Title: Message But i want to make use of the options in rc.sysinit. How should i go about - Original Message - From: santosh kumar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: RE: Auto Fsck without restart U can do auto

Auto Fsck without restart

2003-02-18 Thread Ramesh .T.S
Hi,   I would like to know whether if we can do auto filesystemcheck and fixes. with out a restart and without entering a password when the machine is switched off and on.   Ramesh

Re: fsck you all again!!!!!

2002-12-04 Thread Ribbrock
Abuse sent to hotmail.com, quoting all mails sent by this individual. Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.ribbrock.org | ICQ#: 15839919 "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true

Re: fsck you all again!!!!!

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 20:27 04/12/2002 +0800, you wrote: Looks like Micro$ofts FUD squad are getting desperate.. fsck you all again! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Don't feed the troll! (was: fsck you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

2002-12-03 Thread Ribbrock
It's time for the sign... /| /| | | ||__|| | Please do not | / O O\__feed the Trolls.| / \

Re: fsck you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2002-12-03 Thread Rick Johnson
hongky Michael wrote: > yes, i am fscking you all!!! > > sweat!perfect!! Wow, you need to try ext3 on for size. ;-) If you want off this list, simply go here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe Otherwise, cut off access from your pr0n seeking little brother :-)

Re: fsck you!!!!

2002-12-03 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 08:31 AM, Scott Skrogstad wrote: I liked that one... first beer and all. Maybe some sort of filter could have blocked this! Nah, too much like censorship.. Has it occurred to anyone that perhaps this twit simply forgot to log off from Hotmail and walked aw

Re:how to run fsck

2002-09-24 Thread Asish Balakrishnan
hi, when you receive such a reply from the system.then enter the root passwd. Next type fsck with individual device name.i mean to say run fsck /dev/hda1 and so on.for further details go through the man page.it has a hell lot of information. Regards, Balakrishnan Asish On Sat, 21 Sep 2002

Re: fsck /home

2002-09-12 Thread ABrady
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:03:52 -0500 "Michael Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I execute this command: > > fsck /home > > does it overwrite what is in /home? man fsck The short answer is, no. The long answer is, it doesn't do anything without asking

Re: fsck /home

2002-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
No it should attempt to check the /home file system. Michael Hill wrote: > If I execute this command: > > fsck /home > > does it overwrite what is in /home? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.red

fsck /home

2002-09-12 Thread Michael Hill
If I execute this command:   fsck /home   does it overwrite what is in /home?

Re: fsck and Red hat disk recovery

2002-08-27 Thread Krishna
Do fsck -y "name of partition" Simple! regards Krishna Krishna Shekhar Network Administrator Wiplash Wireless - Original Message - From: Brian Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: fsck and Red hat disk

fsck and Red hat disk recovery

2002-08-27 Thread Brian Mooney
Hi, I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on an intel. After re-booting from a system crash, I am prompted to run fsck to repair filesystems manually with no options. For example, /: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (ie without -a or -p options) **Dropping you into a shell. (Repair files

Re: Low level disk check utility (NOT fsck)?

2002-05-13 Thread Joachim Breuer
Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've asked this question before, but I didn't get any useful answers > so I'll try again: > > Is there a proper disk check utility for Red Hat Linux? I'm not > talking about fsck or similar, but something that

Low level disk check utility (NOT fsck)?

2002-05-13 Thread Toralf Lund
I've asked this question before, but I didn't get any useful answers so I'll try again: Is there a proper disk check utility for Red Hat Linux? I'm not talking about fsck or similar, but something that will exercise the device at block level and help me uncover

Re: Why full fsck with ext3?

2002-05-10 Thread Toralf Lund
> From: Toralf Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why full fsck with ext3? > > > On of our hosts will always do a full fsck operation on its root > filesystem after an unclean shutdown, even though file

Re: fsck on ext3 / partition

2002-04-14 Thread Brian Hanks
If you are getting unwanted/unnecessary fsck run then check out the tune2fs command. I found this link to be very simple yet useful: http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html Good luck, Brian ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: fsck on ext3 / partition

2002-04-13 Thread David Talkington
thing else (ditto). I've yet to >> figure out what the cause is. I'll welcome a discussion on this topic >> ... no one piped up last time I mentioned it. > >Even if the file system is journaled, isn't there a parameter that says to >fsck dependent on numbe

Re: fsck on ext3 / partition

2002-04-13 Thread Keith Morse
ned it. > Even if the file system is journaled, isn't there a parameter that says to fsck dependent on number of boots or time since fscked? This would be to account for the development of bad blocks on the surface of the drive. Is that not the case here? _

Re: fsck on ext3 / partition

2002-04-13 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mike wrote: >Does anyone know why the / partition gets fsckd even though it is ext3 > >I have recompiled ext3 into the kernel (not modulsr) but no difference I've seen this effect consistently on my multi-boot laptop (all ext3 for the Linux partitio

fsck on ext3 / partition

2002-04-13 Thread mike
Does anyone know why the / partition gets fsckd even though it is ext3 I have recompiled ext3 into the kernel (not modulsr) but no difference I have very dodgy power supply where I live so power outage while running fsck has seriously unwanted effects anyone know of a reason/solution

System troublshooting tools / fsck

2002-04-11 Thread Trevor
Sorry about my last post (I meant to change the subject). Trevor. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

fsck made my ext3 partitions into ext2, tune2fs won't change themback.

2002-03-04 Thread Jeff Bearer
I had a problem with a server, it wanted me to run fsck on boot, so I fsck'd the problem filesystem and all the others just for good measure. When I rebooted, I started getting kernel panic's because it couldn't find ext3 root filesystem. I booted into rescue mode and ran fsck.e

Re: Avoiding Running the fsck Command After Each Reboot

2002-02-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:36 07 Feb 2002, Gilberto Ramírez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | How can I avoid Running fsck after the machine turn off accidentaly o reset. | Because when I turn it back on, it makes me run fsck command on my partitions | mannually, and I have like 30 machines with this problem,

Avoiding Running the fsck Command After Each Reboot

2002-02-07 Thread Gilberto Ramírez
How can I avoid Running fsck after the machine turn off accidentaly o reset. Because when I turn it back on, it makes me run fsck command on my partitions mannually, and I have like 30 machines with this problem, and is problem because I onle have access this machines by network (rsh) or

Re: Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-28 Thread rwhartung
x27;s time for me to learn some more! Thakns again, Bob Quoting Ben Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:36:22PM -0600, BobH wrote: > > The machine is up and after a little reading I gather that I should not > > even think of running fsck on ext3 partitions. So

Re: remote fsck

2002-01-24 Thread Richard Rico
Yes, you can run an fsck on the box by typing "shutdown -F -r now" and you can do it while logged on using ssh or telnet. This forces an fsck after a reboot However, if fsck finds a problem it will prompt you to type the root passwd and run fsck manually. If that happens someone has to

RE: remote fsck

2002-01-24 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Title: RE: remote fsck sure...change your init scripts and before you mount, regardless of if the drives were cleanly unmounted, have it run fsck. There is a flag for non-interactive as well.  Then just reboot. I think the file is /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint (on RedHat Systems)  ('man fsch'

remote fsck

2002-01-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Hello all, I was wondering, is it possible to manually fsck a machine if you are not at console to actually take the machine down and do the fsck yourself? The reason I ask is because I need to fsck a machine that I have in a collocation facility, which is several states away from me. I

Re: forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
quick enough to force BobH> filesystem check. I'm using grub as my bootloader. How do I force BobH> fsck of the entire HD that is ext3 format? I think if you touch a file called forcefsck in your root directory, you'll get an fsck on reboot... Ed

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 12:46 pm, john-paul delaney wrote: > I tried the shutdown being the safer (read easier) of the two, the > filesystem checked out ok. Therefore I'm left with a full root > directory but not knowing what's occupying all that

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Yes! That was the question to show me what an idiot I am... I had moved the files mentioned - instead of to a newly partitioned disk /dev/hdc3, to a directory (created by mistake) on the root called hd3. Sorry to have wasted your time gentlemen - but you saved me from making more fatal mistake

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 11:46, john-paul delaney wrote: > Thanks, I appreciate your help... > > I tried the shutdown being the safer (read easier) of the two, the filesystem > checked out ok. Therefore I'm left with a full root directory but not knowing > what's occupying all that space. > >

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * On 20-01-02 at 15:45 * john-paul delaney said > Thanks, I appreciate your help... > > I tried the shutdown being the safer (read easier) of the two, the filesystem > checked out ok. Therefore I'm left with a full root directory but not kno

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks, I appreciate your help... I tried the shutdown being the safer (read easier) of the two, the filesystem checked out ok. Therefore I'm left with a full root directory but not knowing what's occupying all that space. I had moved off some directories but still there's no improvement (mc

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think 'shutdown -rF now' might help. * On 20-01-02 at 14:33 * Duncan Hill said > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: > > > "Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.." > > > > Things are bad enough

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: > "Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.." > > Things are bad enough as it is, so I abort the command. > However I would like to trigger a manual filesystem check... how can I do so? man tune2fs -- Sapere aude

Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... fsck /dev/hda1 output warns: "Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.." Things are bad enough as it is, so I abort the command. However I would like to trigger a manual filesystem check... how can I do so? t

Re: Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-18 Thread Ben Logan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:36:22PM -0600, BobH wrote: > The machine is up and after a little reading I gather that I should not > even think of running fsck on ext3 partitions. So.. now that I can boot > the machine to a new monitor I am seeing for the first time a series of > module

Re: forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-17 Thread Nick Wilson
quick enough to force filesystem check. I'm > using grub as my bootloader. How do I force fsck of the entire HD that is > ext3 format? Hi I've found the best way to do this is $ shutdown -Fr now HTH Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:+45 3325 0677 Web:www.explod

Boot errors: [Was forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot]

2002-01-17 Thread BobH
The machine is up and after a little reading I gather that I should not even think of running fsck on ext3 partitions. So.. now that I can boot the machine to a new monitor I am seeing for the first time a series of module load errors scroll past, but when I review with 'dmesg' there

forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-17 Thread BobH
Hi, I had a flat-panel monitor go out [dead as a doornail] and had to [? but I did anyway] hard powerdown the PC. Upon rebooting I'm getting a lot of errors but didn't respond quick enough to force filesystem check. I'm using grub as my bootloader. How do I force fsck of the

Re: How do I use fsck ?

2001-04-27 Thread winston
To use fsck you login as root then type fsck/dev then type the name you have assigned for your primary hard drive setting that is hda eg. fsck/dev/hda6(depends on what you have assigned for your primary partition where linux is installed). - Original Message - From: Pieter De Wit <[EM

RE: How do I use fsck ?

2001-04-26 Thread Charles Galpin
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Pieter De Wit wrote: > Hello Charles, > > Yes I am Afrikaans :) Take it you are from South Africa ? yes, but emmigrated to the US in '86. > Back to the topic...How do I get fsck to fix the files, from what I can > remeber it only does a check of t

RE: How do I use fsck ?

2001-04-26 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Charles, Yes I am Afrikaans :) Take it you are from South Africa ? Back to the topic...How do I get fsck to fix the files, from what I can remeber it only does a check of the files. As for the backup, I don't have any since it's not a mission critical system (only a proxy serv

Re: How do I use fsck ?

2001-04-25 Thread Charles Galpin
Hoe gaan dit Pieter? You will most likely need to make a trip to the site, or instruct someone there how to do this. You need to boot off a rescue floppy or cdrom, and run fsck on that partition. It may fix the problems, and it may not. I have had a situation where the file corruption occured

How do I use fsck ?

2001-04-25 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Guys and Gals, I have a curropted / part. The system doesn't want to boot, and its at my remote site. I have had this happen before...What can I do to fix this ? Thanks, Pieter De Wit ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lis

RE: 'fsck' on a mounted partition

2001-01-29 Thread Chuck Carson
t: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: 'fsck' on a mounted partition On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Is there a way to safely run 'fsck' on a mounted partition? Under Solaris > you can do this by refferin

Re: 'fsck' on a mounted partition

2001-01-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Is there a way to safely run 'fsck' on a mounted partition? Under Solaris > you can do this by reffering to /dev/rdsk/ and not worry about > pear shaping anything (I could not find anything resembling this in RH's > dev

'fsck' on a mounted partition

2001-01-27 Thread Chuck Carson
Is there a way to safely run 'fsck' on a mounted partition? Under Solaris you can do this by reffering to /dev/rdsk/ and not worry about pear shaping anything (I could not find anything resembling this in RH's device tree). I have several hard hit web servers with /var patition g

Re: fsck problem

2000-11-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:55:42AM -0800, D. W. Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We had to reboot the system last night, and on restart fsck failed for | the RAID device with the error message: | Block bitmap for group 256 is not in group | followed by | /dev/rd/c0d2p1: Unex

fsck problem

2000-11-30 Thread D. W. Piper
es. We had to reboot the system last night, and on restart fsck failed for the RAID device with the error message: Block bitmap for group 256 is not in group followed by /dev/rd/c0d2p1: Unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually Running fsck manually produced the error message: e2

Question about fsck message

2000-06-25 Thread Gary Nielson
The last two times fsck has run (automatically every 20th time I boot up) it has done some work on the root file system on the /tmp directory. Why is it needing to work on the /tmp directory with the following messages noted and is there something I need to do to correct something so that fsck

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:00:57AM -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > I've got a similar thing happening to a PPro 200 running RH 6.1 > The machine is constantly bellyaching about crash this bad inodes > that... memtest86 says Nada... nothing wrong with the system. If > you can eventually figur

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
if under warranty, just as soon not have the hassle (unless >necessary). See badblocks(8) and the options to fsck(8) and e2fsck(8) for mapping out bad blocks on the drive. Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-02 Thread Greg Wright
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil >Subject: Re: umounting / for fsck > > >On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:12:55AM -0500, Bill Carlson wrote: >> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: >> > >> > Apr 30 04:24:43 localhost k

RE: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-02 Thread Ward William E PHDN
il Subject: Re: umounting / for fsck On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:12:55AM -0500, Bill Carlson wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > > Apr 30 04:24:43 localhost kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): > > ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 191777

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 12:55:29PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > > Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Curious that e2fsck does not want to > > fix this (at least permaneantly), and seems to be the same inodes > > everytime. > > > Perhaps it's a flaky driv

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Curious that e2fsck does not want to > fix this (at least permaneantly), and seems to be the same inodes > everytime. > Perhaps it's a flaky drive John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:12:55AM -0500, Bill Carlson wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > > Apr 30 04:24:43 localhost kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): > > ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 191777 > > Hal, > > I've seen errors like these before, 2 or 3

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-01 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:43:34PM -0500, David Talkington wrote: > > > > Would passing the "read-only" option to the kernel at the LILO: prompt > > have the desired effect? > > Actually I am a little worried about some disk errors I have gotten, > and a

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, David Talkington wrote: > Would passing the "read-only" option to the kernel at the LILO: prompt > have the desired effect? > Dunno, it might. John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-04-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
y cleared for inode 191777 > :On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > :> Trying to fsck my root partition on a running system, and I am now > :> consistently getting: > :> > :> #init 1 > :> (appears to go alright ... ) > :> #umount -a &

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-04-30 Thread David Talkington
Would passing the "read-only" option to the kernel at the LILO: prompt have the desired effect? -d John Aldrich wrote: :On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: :> Trying to fsck my root partition on a running system, and I am now :> consistently getting: :> :> #ini

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-04-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 07:44:01PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > Trying to fsck my root partition on a running system, and I am now > > consistently getting: > > > > #init 1 > > (appears to go alright ... ) > >

Re: umounting / for fsck

2000-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Trying to fsck my root partition on a running system, and I am now > consistently getting: > > #init 1 > (appears to go alright ... ) > #umount -a > mount: / device busy > > (or similar). Trying > > #mount -n -o

umounting / for fsck

2000-04-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
Trying to fsck my root partition on a running system, and I am now consistently getting: #init 1 (appears to go alright ... ) #umount -a mount: / device busy (or similar). Trying #mount -n -o remount,ro / also fails with same error. What is keeping this busy? Extremely few processes

RE: Non-fsck disk repair tools?

2000-03-02 Thread Ward William E PHDN
: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil Subject: Re: Non-fsck disk repair tools? All that RPM bashing for nothing :) Have you tried running e2fsck by hand on the partiton(s)? I once had a machine that did that to me, but once I fscked it by hand, it was fixed. See /usr/src/linux/Documentati

Re: Non-fsck disk repair tools?

2000-03-02 Thread Charles Galpin
database get > corrupted, > but the filesystem has become corrupted. I can create files, write to them, > etc., > but I cannot create new directories. I've never seen anything like that. > I've > tried rebooting, thinking it was some kind of transient error, and f

Non-fsck disk repair tools?

2000-03-02 Thread Ward William E PHDN
rupted. I can create files, write to them, etc., but I cannot create new directories. I've never seen anything like that. I've tried rebooting, thinking it was some kind of transient error, and fsck has detected errors on the disk... repeatedly. Every time I've rebooted, even if I r

Re: Power fail and fsck (second request)

1999-11-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:38:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I posted a couple of messages about Redhat 6.0 and it's runing of fsck > after a power fail the otehr day. Never did get a reply. This is of course normal. > Could someone please give me some

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