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Tha1

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Registered: 2006-06-30

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Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Hi guys.
When i try to boot into Arch,aftere all the hardware checkups,always gives me the same message:Filesystem Check Failed.Asks then to repair and reboot manually. For the record, i have a SATA disk from Seagate, and i have sda6 as swap, and sda7 as /; it's when is checking in sda7 that this happens.
How can i solve this?

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Have you tried actually repairing the filesystem?

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dtw

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

If you need a hint on how to do that you just need to give the root password when prompted and run an fs repair.  If you have ext3 I find this works great:

e2fsck -p /dev/hd??

Whatever hd?? or even sd?? might be.  In 99% of cases there is no real problem and the check is merely cursory.[/code]

Tha1

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Registered: 2006-06-30

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

I didn't know how to repair it. Fortunately, without me doing anything,after two reboots the system started to boot normally. I don't know what happened, but I'm glad that it did. Thanks for your help anyway.

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

You should try to do a manual check again anyway, just to be on the safe side.
If errors occur, try to repair the fs with the command dtw posted (ofc with the right partition entered).

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Just make sure that you do not run it on a mounted file system. You will completely trash your Ext3 partitions.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Just make sure that you do not run it on a mounted file system. You will completely trash your Ext3 partitions.

and you can use telinit s or append s to your kernel line in grub.conf to drop down into single user mode to remount as read-only.

JadedMouse

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Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 3

Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

check your fstab, cos mine always changes after a partition resize, so it may apply to you too.

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

May as well finish off the list of how to check your filesystem..

If you run "touch /forcefsck" as root, it'll check all filesystems next time it boots.

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orjanp

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From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Just make sure that you do not run it on a mounted file system. You will completely trash your Ext3 partitions.

So it is wise to boot with the install cd and do it from there?

Orjanp...

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skottish

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

So it is wise to boot with the install cd and do it from there?

Someone else will have to confirm this, but I don't see why doing it from a live CD would be a problem. I've always done it from inside Arch. I drop down to run level 3, explicitly unmount the drive in question, then run the repair utility.

Last edited by skottish (2007-03-19 01:34:45)

Recursive

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Registered: 2009-03-18

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

How do you successfully umount your root filesystem to run e2fsck on it without using your Arch Boot CD? Could you give me the exact command?

Last edited by Recursive (2009-04-13 19:14:11)

mickael9

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Registered: 2008-10-11

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

« telinit 1 » switches to single user mode, make sure the filesystem is mounted read-only (mount /dev/sdXX -o remount,ro) and then run fsck

Marko-Serbia

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-09-06

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

You literary saved me of few hours of boredom from installing system. I fooled around with new ubuntu 9.10 and tried to change permissions on arch mounted partitions so I can access my home folder (its stupid I know). And it changed my filesystem so I couldn't pass the check on startup. fsck /dev/sda3 in my case helped. Thank you.

trusktr

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

thanks Marko-Serbia! That command worked like a charm. I don't know how things got messed up to begin with, but it's fixed now.

Anyone with this problem, use:

fsck /dev/sdaX

but replace X with the number of the partition that Failed at boot.

Also if the drive you are booting from is the second boot device, you might need to substitute sdaX with sdbX, etc...

I've learnt so much already this past day installing linux for the first time ever..

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AquaFox

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Registered: 2007-06-08

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

When I try to umount my / it says it unmounted but if I run fsck it says it is mounted. This is worrying.

jasonwryan

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Re: Filesystem Check Failed !!!

Please don't necro-bump https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

If you have a similar issue, open a new thread and include as much information as you can...

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