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GloW_on_dub

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[SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

Hello

Since one or two months, i have a strange behavior during on-bott forced check-disk.
I have one large partition ( 1T ) for data and other litle partitions.
If i experience a power failure, the next time i boot, a checkdisk will be forced, wich is the standard behavior.
Most of the time, every one of my partition need to be checked, but my data take a log longer than the others.

Before i had no problem, just waiting 20minutes for the checkdisk to finish.
But now, after 10minutes or so, when i check my computer, it is not on.
If i power it again, checkdisk will be forced only on my data partition, but once again after 10minutes, the computer turn off.

Hopefully, i've added a "skip" option in my grub so i can boot without checking, and then, i can perform a checkdisk on my (unmounted) data partition without any problem, and next time i boot, no forced check disk.
But it is merelly a work-around.

What could cause my computer to turn off during checkdisk?
Where can i find a shutdown log ?

Thanks

Last edited by GloW_on_dub (2014-12-29 14:34:34)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

What filesystem is on that partition? 20 min checkdisk is a bit long.
Check systemd's journal.

GloW_on_dub

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Re: [SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

Maybe because that's an old ext2 partition ?
5      2097kB  1000GB  1000GB  logical   ext2

I will let you know about the log.

swanson

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Registered: 2011-02-05

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Re: [SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

It certainely is. There's a big time difference even between ext3 and ext4 checking. A conversion might be possible. I dit it on my ext3 parttion and it worked, but was cumbersome. Here's a lin k:

http://lifehacker.com/5613333/convert-e … hard-drive

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

It certainely is. There's a big time difference even between ext3 and ext4 checking.

IMHO the speed of checkdisk alone is the reason not to use ext3 on anything bigger then 20 GB :-)
The wiki has some info about ext3 -> ext4 conversion: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … t3_to_ext4

@OP
Why are you using ext2? ext4 has a few options, so you probably can tailor it to your needs.

GloW_on_dub

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Re: [SOLVED]Shutdown during on-boot checkdisk.

sorry for the delay.
After conversion to ext4, the problem does not appear anymore, and checkdisk time is greatly reduced.

Thx.