Re: fsck'd - FIXED
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the
> "enter root password to enter maintenance", I did that, and at the
> prompt entered fsck. It warned me about running e2fsck on a mounted
> filesystem, and I entered "n" and saw "no" echoed - However, then it
> goes ahead and runs. Will someone please explain that? It seemed to
> fix a million things (or at least a few hundred), but now it is
> actually fixed! Why does this work like this, and why didn't it work
> running fsck from a live CD? Thanks again! - John
I don't understand either. Have you checked /var/log/syslog for drive
errors and installed smartmontools and checked that too?
Something caused all these errors.
Do subsequent reboots work fine? What about a shutdown -rF when a fsck
is forced, are there any errors?
Doug.
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