Re: Problem with fsck on boot

Hi :)

El Jueves, 21 de Septiembre de 2006 15:52, Glen Christensen escribió:
> shutdown -f  now
>
> will prevent fsck from running upon reboot
>
> -Glen Christensen
>
> >>> "Bruce Adams" <[email protected]> 09/21/06 7:26 AM >>>
>
> 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. After a long time of
> successful running I rebooted to a forced fsck check which hung the machine
> (with no output from fsck at all).
>
> 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 to correct the problem but this filesystem is /dev/sda5 when
> booting normally.


SATA drives are /dev/sd, why did you use /dev/hda3? Is the drive configured as 
PATA?


> 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.


What filesystem do you have on your drive? If it's ext2/3, you can use 
tune2fs.

   Rafa


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