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#1 2010-04-03 11:56:13
- JohnnyJohnny
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filesystem check failed, sda3 is already mounted
Hi,
my Arch doesn't like me anymore, and won't boot. 
I got this message on every boot:
checking Filessystems
/dev/sda1 clean, 170862/732960 files 1216914/2929846 blocks
/dev/sda3 is mounted [fail]
**********************FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED ******************
*
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root file system is currently
* mounted read-only. To remount it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw /
* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will reboot automatically
*
***************************************************************The strange thing is, when try to umount sda3 it says "filesystem is not mounted".
I've changed fstab from device nodes to UUIDs, but the error remained.
I've also tried fsck, but of course the harddrive is clean.
This is my fstab:
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
UUID=a43c3fa9-a3c4-488e-ba2a-44aa47f06b36 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=8f420498-a02f-4286-afda-731742b89cb7 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=c8455880-1577-42e8-ba4e-d6b7ac2c887d / ext4 defaults 0 1Maybe something on the bootscript is not correct, but i don't know where to start.
I'm thankful for every suggestion.
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#2 2010-04-03 13:38:14
- unixthecat
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Re: filesystem check failed, sda3 is already mounted
Have you tried doing this?
mount -n -o remount,rw /I've experienced the same problem as yours when I was experimenting with Gentoo (dual boot) and doing exactly that fixed it (Well, I have to remount / rw every time I boot up Gentoo).
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#3 2010-04-03 14:17:09
- JohnnyJohnny
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Re: filesystem check failed, sda3 is already mounted
Have you tried doing this?
mount -n -o remount,rw /I've experienced the same problem as yours when I was experimenting with Gentoo (dual boot) and doing exactly that fixed it (Well, I have to remount / rw every time I boot up Gentoo).
That's not the Problem.
Sure, I can mount my home partition and remount root on every boot, but it would be nice if it works automatically. ^^
I've forgot something.
All partitions are primary ones. Maybe that's the problem?
The system is one day old (but not the hardware 
), I'm new with arch. Also, it's not the first reboot, yesterday was everything fine (I know that sound stupid). I can't imagine that one of the last packages manipulate the bootscripts.
Last edited by JohnnyJohnny (2010-04-03 14:24:05)
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#4 2010-05-23 10:11:22
- Lonsas
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Re: filesystem check failed, sda3 is already mounted
I currently have the same problem... The problem is that my /dev/sda3 (home) gets mounted as /media/usbhd-sda3 somewhere before fsck is run by rc.sysinit. It's simple to fix by unmounting it before the fsck (umount /media/usbhd-sda3).
The question is why it is mounted?
I've changed alot of things latety in my system, but I have not touched the rc.sysinit (until now to fix it)
The main change is a new custom kernel, which I'm not using. I guess I could have replaced some old modules by mistake, but that shouldn't make the filesystem automount AFAIK. :S
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#5 2010-05-23 13:00:32
- loafer
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Re: filesystem check failed, sda3 is already mounted
There is a similar thread here, with a suggestion that worked for the poster:
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For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down.
Gerrard Winstanley.
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