Problem with fsck on boot

"Bruce Adams" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:26:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ia64
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Hi,
   Apologies if this is not the correct list (the general list appears =
to be jammed with spam).
I'm running a 64bit Suse 10 install dual booting with W*ndows XP on a =
dell with a SATA hard-drive.=20
After a long time of successful running I rebooted to a forced fsck =
check=20
which hung the machine (with no output from fsck at all).=20

I was only able to recover by booting in recovery mode and running fsck. =

Fsck found no errors but simply updated the last check time so that the =
check at boot time
was no longer required.
I think the problem may be SATA related. From the boot disk I ran fsck =
/dev/hda3=20
to correct the problem but this filesystem is /dev/sda5 when booting =
normally.

Firstly, Is there a way to bypass the fsck check (perhaps using a boot =
option) when it occurs?
Alternatively is there a way to disable it completely and run the check =
manually.
My installation is all on one partition (excluding swap) which =
presumably means creating
a ram disk containing fsck, unmounting the root file system and =
re-mounting it following the
check. I'm not sure how best to achieve this. Any ideas?
                                      Regards,
                                              Bruce.




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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Hi,<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Apologies if this is not the correct list (the general list =
appears to be jammed with spam).<BR>
I'm running a 64bit Suse 10 install dual booting with W*ndows XP on a =
dell with a SATA hard-drive.<BR>
After a long time of successful running I rebooted to a forced fsck =
check<BR>
which hung the machine (with no output from fsck at all).<BR>
<BR>
I was only able to recover by booting in recovery mode and running =
fsck.<BR>
Fsck found no errors but simply updated the last check time so that the =
check at boot time<BR>
was no longer required.<BR>
I think the problem may be SATA related. From the boot disk I ran fsck =
/dev/hda3<BR>
to correct the problem but this filesystem is /dev/sda5 when booting =
normally.<BR>
<BR>
Firstly, Is there a way to bypass the fsck check (perhaps using a boot =
option) when it occurs?<BR>
Alternatively is there a way to disable it completely and run the check =
manually.<BR>
My installation is all on one partition (excluding swap) which =
presumably means creating<BR>
a ram disk containing fsck, unmounting the root file system and =
re-mounting it following the<BR>
check. I'm not sure how best to achieve this. Any ideas?<BR>
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