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corsakh

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 104

[SOLVED] System File Check Fail

Hello,

After installing Arch today, about half the time the boot up process stops in the middle.

It says that the system file check failed (on my root partition in ext3), that its not a ext2 filesystem (its not, its ext3), and that super block is incorrect or soemthing to this extent.

Then it mounts the partition as read only and suggests me to fix it. I restart and everything is fine. Then it happens randomly again. Disk is fairly good and new, I don't think it would have any errors. What can be wrong?

Last edited by corsakh (2009-11-15 06:32:20)

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: [SOLVED] System File Check Fail

Do you have more than one disk in your computer? If yes, try using UUIDs instead of /dev/sdx entries in /etc/fstab.

corsakh

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 104

Re: [SOLVED] System File Check Fail

Yep, two drives. I'll try that, thanks.