fsck failure at boot

[Herta Van den Eynde]

Jason,

Do you still have the command (and command output) you used to create 
the filesystem?

Does SANsurfer report any errors?

Kind regards,

Herta

Jason Dixon wrote:
> We have an Altix 350 (ia64) 2-node server running RHAS 4.  I just  
> installed a fibre Qlogic HBA (QLA2310) in the controller node, which  
> seemed to work fine.  I formatted one large ext3 partition (sdb1) and  
> was able to mount it flawlessly.  Upon rebooting, however, the system  
> hung while checking the new filesystem:
> 
> ...
> Checking all file systems.
> [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /san] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sdb1
> /dev/sdb1:
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate  superblock:
>     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> 
> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb1
> [FAILED]
> 
> *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> *** when you leave the shell.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue):
> ...
> 
> 
> Fsck'g the filesystem reports it as clean, and I'm able to mount the  
> partition immediately:
> 
> (Repair filesystem) 1 # fsck.ext3 /dev/sdb1
> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> /dev/sdb1: clean, 11/61292544 files, 1949532/122554648 blocks
> (Repair filesystem) 2 # mount /san
> (Repair filesystem) 3 # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                        74G  7.6G   63G  11% /
> /dev/sdb1             461G  102M  437G   1% /san
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any clues as to why this is happening?  If I comment  
> out the relevant line in fstab, the machine boots up fine.  I can  then 
> manually mount the filesystem, but certainly this should not be  necessary.
> 
> [root at altix ~]# grep san /etc/fstab
> /dev/sdb1              /san                    ext3     defaults        1 2
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Jason Dixon
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net

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