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matersci

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 169

cant boot, filesystem error

hi.

I am using ext3. During last boot the root partition was checked and it gave me an error:

/dev/hdb5 Inode 144226 has imagic flag set

I have the options to repair the filesystem manually or reboot.
If i choose to reboot, I cant boot. I have a message saying that filesystem has errors and chech forced. So I see again the previous message about Inode.

Any ideas?
How to repair the filesystem?
didnt find something...

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: cant boot, filesystem error

Boot from your install CD. In the console do

fsck.ext3 /dev/hdb5

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Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: cant boot, filesystem error

you can also choose repair manually. To do so you need to type root password, press enter and then run:

fsck.ext3 /dev/hdb5

or, if you don't want to be pressing [y] key, run:

fsck.ext3 -y /dev/hdb5

Last edited by Pajaro (2007-02-25 11:54:42)

matersci

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 169

Re: cant boot, filesystem error

thanks, everything OK now.

When I boot from boot cd (0.7.2) I cant use fsck.ext3 (command not found) so I did fsck.ext3 during normal boot (later I saw Pajaros post for -y, very helpful)

Last edited by matersci (2007-02-25 18:15:00)