[PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

[Ben Koenig]

So based on the info you've given, more information is required to
understand the problem.

Basically:
- your logwatch messages says you have a problem with the EXT4 filesystem
on /dev/sdb.
- you say /dev/sdb is formatted as EXT3.

That doesn't line up. There's no reason why you should be mounting an EXT3
partition as EXT4 unless you have a specific reason to do so ( and I very
much doubt that you do).

Since logwatch isn't giving you the error, check dmesg for sdb related
messages:
$ dmesg |grep sdb

The output of the above command might include the error that logwatch is
referring to. if you are unable to find the exact error in dmesg, reproduce
it using the following steps (as root)
$ umount /dev/sdb
$ dmesg > log-before.txt
$ mount /dev/sdb
$ dmesg > log-after.txt
$ diff log-before.txt log-after.txt

The output of diff will give you only the messages that occured AFTER you
mounted /dev/sdb. Any errors, warnings, and messages that occur as part of
the mount process will be shown there, in all their gory detail. If there
is in fact a problem with this particular drive, you will see it in the
difference between the before and after logs.




On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:39 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Those kernel warnings say EXT4, but your fstab and fsck usage all say
> > ext3.
> >
> > Are you absolutely sure this volume
> > is ext3? Because the kernel has other ideas....
>
> Yes.
>
> This host, and the external drive, were formatted as ext3. Only my 64-bit
> hosts are formatted ext4.
>
> Rich
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