RE: File System Errors

["Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey fmonkey net>]

I had this very same problem with a RedHat 7.3 installation.  As I recall, I
was taking a box that used to be Windows and replacing it with RedHat 7.3.
I created three partitions, /, /boot, and a swap partition.  I think the
swap partition ended up being /dev/hda2, but I can't remember for sure.
Every time after install, when the machine would boot, it would fail on the
fsck of the swap partition, and then complain about fsck'ing a mounted
partition (the swap partition).  Nothing I did solved the problem, so I
ended up just re-installing.  Before I did, however, I booted into Linux
rescue, fdisk()'ed away all the partitions, wrote to disk, quit, then
fsck()'ed in a new, whole-disk, Linux partition, used mkfs.ext3 to format
the partition, reboot, and then re-installed.  The problem went away.  I
never really took the time to figure out why, since the only time lost was a
re-install (which wasn't too bad considering the server had never even boot
one time).

ahp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-admin redhat com [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]
> On Behalf Of Dale Satterfield
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 01:05
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: File System Errors
> 
> I have a box with RH 8.0 installed, and upgraded to kernel
> 2.4.18-18.8.0smp. I now am getting an error message that an error was
> found during the initial fsck, and it drops me into a shell. I tried
> fsck ( complains about running e2fsck on a mounted system), and
> fsck.ext3 ( with same complaint). The file system is ext3. I tried
> linux rescue but that didn't work either. How do I get around this ? If
> I just control-D to reboot, it hangs at the same place.
> 
> 
> 
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