Re: severe fsck problem on bootup

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

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.
> 
> The server boots up fine when the secondary drive is put back in
> however.
> 
> Has anyone ever encountered this problem before? Could the problem be
> to references to the removed drive in /etc/fstab?
> 
> thanks
> 
What do you mean by "crashing at fsck"?  If you mean fsck fails, and it 
wants you to enter the root password to go into maintence mode, I can 
understand that.  To fix the problem, you will need to look at 
/etc/fstab, and see what mounts use the second drive.  Depending on how 
your system is set up, you may not be able to remove the second hard 
drive without a bit of work first.  If parts of the system are mounted 
on the second hard drive, you will have to relocate them before removing 
the drive.

Now, if you are using partition labels, it may be hard to tell from 
reading fstab what is on the second drive.  You can use mount or df
commands to see what is mounted where.

Mikkel
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