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Re: "Failed!" message received when EXT3 filesystem mounted



On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:34:47AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
> I have Etch installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.  There are five 
> hda partitions which have the EXT3 file system mounted thereon. Hda1 is 
> a physical partition where /boot is mounted.  The other four, hda5 
> through hda8, are logical partitions where / (root), /usr, /tmp and 
> /home are mounted respectively.
> 
> When the laptop is booted EXT3 is mounted on these five partitions 
> successively, causing the following message to scroll by five times, 
> where the X in hdaX indicates the partition number:
> 
> Mar 14 07:54:59 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on hdaX, internal journal
> Mar 14 07:54:59 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with 	 
>        ordered data mode.
> 
> On the line following the last of these messages appears the following, 
> in red: "failed!"
> 
> This "failed" indication does not appear in either dmesg or the syslog, 
> but the EXT3 mounting messages do.  All these EXT3 messages in both do 
> not indicate anything amiss; nor have I noticed any performance degradation.
> 
> Is the appearance of this "failed!" message on boot up something I 
> should be concerned about?  If not, is there some way I can stop it?
> 

I suspect that is not related to mounting your filesystem, but some
other concurrent process going on during the boot. 

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