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samwhiteUK

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Registered: 2011-08-26

Posts: 9

Filesystem check failed on boot

Hi,

Recently I reinstalled Arch Linux on my laptop (Dell Studio 1737) due to bloating and pacman generally being pretty borked.

For the first few boots it was fine - I installed xorg and xfce, then ran a Pacman -Syu. However, when I reboot, I get the following:

root: clean, XXXX/XXXXXX files, XXXX/XXXXXX blocks
home: clean, XXXX/XXXXXX files, XXXX/XXXXXX blocks
var: clean, XXXX/XXXXXX files, XXXX/XXXXXX blocks
/dev/sda6 is mounted. e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting.

FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED

Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write type: mount -o remount,rw /
When you exit the maintenance shell the system will reboot automatically.

I have tried removing mtab, fsck (despite it saying the filesystem is mounted, even when umount says it is not), among other "fixes"

My current setup is

/dev/sda2: /
/dev/sda3: swap
/dev/sda4: /home
/dev/sda5: /var
/dev/sda6: /usr (this is where the problem occurs)

Can anybody help?

Thanks,

Sam

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Filesystem check failed on boot

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134024

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