Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When booting my computer this morning, fsck was not happy. Here is what
> it said:
>
> ==
> # cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs
> Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
> Tue Jun 1 09:00:07 2010
>
> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> /dev/sdc5 has been mounted 50 times without being checked, check forced.
> /dev/sdc5: Inode 18554881 is in use, but has dtime set. FIXED.
> /dev/sdc5: Inode 18554881 has imagic flag set.
>
> /dev/sdc5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> fsck died with exit status 4
> ==
>
e2fsck [-y] /dev/sdc5
[The optional -y answers "yes" to the prompts saying "Fix.[y/n]
e2fsck -a attempts an automatic fix of the commonest errors but is conservative and makes minimal
changes. If it fails / there's more than one thing wrong, it will bail out and ask for a manual fix, in
my experience anyway.
> What could I do when running fsck manually? Do I need to unmount the
> related filesystem (i.e. /dev/sdc5) to check it, or not? And what do I
> need to specify?
If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a rescue disk to do so
- but I'm assuming that it's not the root (/) filesystem, or you wouldn't have got this far.
> Thanks.
>
Hope this helps,
All the best,
AndyC
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