Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem
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"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 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.
Ok. I had to use e2fsck -y, and everything worked. This was clearly a
mess on my HDD, apparently. It must be dying. But I am still unable to
explain this. Thanks, though.
- --
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
- --
What doesn't kill you will make you stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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