[PLUG] FSCK what's going on?

[Carlos Konstanski]

What do you mean when you say "ran a fsck from knoppix"?  Did you run an
"e2fsck" without the -f option, or did you run an actual "fsck"?  You
say the checked out clean.  Was this right away when running the fsck
command, or after a lengthy disk check?  e2fsck without a -f will often
not even bother to run a disk check.

I like to run "e2fsck -fptv" (sometimes with the -c option to run
badblocks).  If that doesn't succeed, I then run "fsck -C".  That has
always worked for me.  I also use knoppix for this procedure.

e2fsck is a wrapper around fsck.ext3.  I'm thinking it's kinda pointless to
run e2fsck.  Maybe use fsck directly instead.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, William A Morita wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:32:26 -0800
> From: William A Morita <wamorita at hevanet.com>
> To: 'General Linux discussion and assistance' <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] FSCK what's going on?
> 
>
> The file systems are of type ext3.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:41 PM
> To: wamorita at hevanet.com; General Linux discussion and assistance
> 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?
>>
>> - Bill Morita
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> What partition type is it? ext2? ext3? Anything else is quite risky.
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