[PLUG] FSCK what's going on?
William A Morita
wamorita at hevanet.com
Sun Mar 20 05:32:26 UTC 2005
The file systems are of type ext3.
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] FSCK what's going on?
William A Morita wrote:
>I recently rebooted my White Box Linux system and it failed to complete
>the boot because of a "dirty" root file system.
>
>I then booted into a Knoppix Linux and ran fsck on all drives which
>checked out clean.
>
>Booting back to WB Linux, I get the same message about unclean shutdown
>and type "Y" for cleanup of the root file system. I had to do the
>reboot and cleanup three times to get things to come up clean.
>
>So...
>
>Question One: Why did not the Knoppix fsck fix things or even detect a
>problem?
>
>Question Two: Why the need for multiple reboots and fscks across the
>root file system?
>
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What partition type is it? ext2? ext3? Anything else is quite risky.
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