[rhn-users] error file system check

Riley, Liz (ACHE) Liz.Riley at smiths-aerospace.com
Wed Jul 5 13:30:48 UTC 2006


Long as the drive is actually accessible, you can still mount it even
when it has errors

You can do

mount -o remount,rw /

Edit the fstab

mount -o remount,ro /

Should put it back in read only. Then run the fsck on it.

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Prodromos Zanis
Sent: 05 July 2006 14:19
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] error file system check

Hallo again

I tryed to edit fstab but it is a zero bytes file (it is actually
empty).
I assume this is my problem.

The other problem is that when I enter with my root password to the
Repair filesystem shell I have Read-only file system and hence I cannot
modify the fstab file.

What can I do?

I look forward for your help.

With kind regards

Prodromos Zanis


>
> Did you edit the fstab which is what it was complaining about and I
> explained?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Prodromos Zanis
> Sent: 05 July 2006 12:08
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] error file system check
>
> Dear Linux users
>
> In continuation of my yesterday email I tryed to do what it was
> suggested to fix my error in file system check as follows:
>
> a) first i did fdisk -l to see the partions in my hard disk I
> identified the partitions /dev/hdg1  and /dev/hdg2  with fstype ext3
> and
> /dev/gdg3 with fstype swap.
> Then
> b) I run e2fsck -b 8193  /dev/hdg1 and e2fsck -b 8193  /dev/hdg2
>
> However when I reboot the maschine I still had the same error message.
>
> I also tryed alternatively the following to repair the file system
>
> b) I run e2fsck -p -f /dev/hdg1 and e2fsck -p -f /dev/hdg2
>
> Still the problem remains and I do not know how to overcome this
> problem.
> I look forward for any hints.
>
> With kind regards
> Prodromso Zanis
>
>>
>> In /etc/fstab you should see something like
>>
>> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
>> 1 1
>>
>> Or
>>
>> /dev/sda1                /                       ext3    defaults
>> 1 1
>>
>> Which goes
>>
>> Label/disk  path_to_mount	fstype	options fs_freq fs_passno
>>
>> Check man fstab for mor einfo
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Prodromos Zanis
>> Sent: 04 July 2006 13:26
>> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
>> Subject: [rhn-users] error file system check
>>
>>
>> Dear RHN users
>>
>> I run Red Hat 9.
>> I would be glad if someone could give a hint on the following error.
>>
>> when I reboot my mashine I got the following error message:
>>  **************************************
>> checking root filesystem
>> WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I
>> will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab

>> file as soon as you can.
>> fsck.ext2/:
>> 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 sometghing else), then the
>> superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an
>> alternative
>> superblock:
>> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>> : Is a directory while trying to open /
>>
>> *** An error occured 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):
>>
>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>> With kind regards
>>
>> Prodromos
>>
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