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varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

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file system check error

Ihave two disks, one ide with two partitions and another SATA with one swap and two ext3 partitions.
Arch is installed in /dev/sda5.
When Arch is booted the follwoing screen is shown:
"
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 file system. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 file system (and not swap or ufs or something else, then the superblock is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative super block : e2fsck -b 8193 <device>.
File system check failed. Please repair manually and reboot. "

When I reboot , Arch boots normally and works fine. "

Plese advise.

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IMCHillen

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Registered: 2010-01-08

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Re: file system check error

Tried fsck-ing your different partitions? Problems with /boot partitions will cause this.

varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

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Re: file system check error

The same error is reported when I ran the check on /dev/sda6 too.

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: file system check error

The same error is reported when I ran the check on /dev/sda6 too.

Did you not just initially tell us that of your two disks (that would be sda and sdb) - one has 2 partitions and one has 3? (swap + 2x ext3) Then - how the heck do you get to sda5 and sda6??

schuay

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Registered: 2008-08-19

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Re: file system check error

The same error is reported when I ran the check on /dev/sda6 too.

Did you not just initially tell us that of your two disks (that would be sda and sdb) - one has 2 partitions and one has 3? (swap + 2x ext3) Then - how the heck do you get to sda5 and sda6??

extended partition numbers start at 5?

varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 145

Re: file system check error

Primary IDE has two vfat partitions (sdb1 and sdb5).
SATA drive has sda1 as swap and two other ext3 partitions sda5 and sda6.
Different distros identify the disks in different ways.
Sometimes IDE disk is identified as /dev/hda whereas in Arch and in some other distros t is labelled as /dev/sda.
In BIOS settings IDE is the first hard disk.

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quarkup

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: file system check error

when in shell, what is the output of the following command?

df -hTl

you should execute for each partition entry - displayed in the mount point column

fsck <partition>

it should work i guess

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varaahan

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Re: file system check error

[sridhar@myhost ~]$ df -hTl
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5     ext3     19G  2.8G   15G  16% /
none         tmpfs    220M     0  220M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0   iso9660    105M  105M     0 100% /media/dvd
/dev/sda7     vfat    110G   40G   71G  36% /mnt/backup

Since /dev/sda (Arch) IS MOUNTED , I have not run fsck on this partition.

bash-4.0# fsck /dev/sda6
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
fsck: fsck.reiserfs: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.reiserfs for /dev/sda6
bash-4.0# powerpill -S fsck.reiserfs
fsck.reiserfs package not found, searching for group...
error: 'fsck.reiserfs': not found in sync db

/dev/sda6 hosts Vectorlinux with reiserfs.

Tried reinstalling e2fsprogs .

bash-4.0# powerpill -S e2fsprogs
warning: e2fsprogs-1.41.9-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): e2fsprogs-1.41.9-1 

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   2.68 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading e2fsprogs                           [#####################] 100%
bash-4.0#

Please advise.

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

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Re: file system check error

For reiserfs you have to use 'reiserfsck' - which you most probably have allready

Whenever I have problems like yours above, I always do a:

for d in /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin; do ls $d/*reiser*; done

This would have come up with reiserfsck ...

- and now we also have a sda7 here! Hmmm

Last edited by perbh (2010-01-09 02:33:19)