Arch Linux

rine

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Filesystem check failed for external drive

I have an external drive and this is the message I get when I change the last value in fstab from 0 to 2.

When I boot with the last value set to 0, I get a message like "UUID=cfe4c77d-d813-42bd-aa30-3931bba25492 - there is no such device" or something, but it boots.
When I mount -a in my running system it gets mounted and everything works.
My fstab:
http://pastie.caboo.se/176029

The same fstab entry works for ubuntu without problems btw (with the checkvalue set to 2).

Last edited by rine (2008-04-07 14:29:02)

carlocci

Member

From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: Filesystem check failed for external drive

Some dumb programs have problems accepting UUID=uuid in the fstab.
You should use /dev/disk/by-UUID/uuid which every program can understand.
Remember that /dev/disk/by-UUID/link-to-the-device is created by udev at boot, so disabling udev would break this workaround: you shouldn't use it for your root partition in case you want to fiddle with it.

I had the same problem with konqueror who couldn't mount UUID entries.

Last edited by carlocci (2008-04-06 14:37:18)

rine

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Re: Filesystem check failed for external drive

That worked, nice. I don't understand the UUID=uuid method doesn't work, as it works with the other drives.

rine

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Re: Filesystem check failed for external drive

Man. Same error again now after it worked before 8[