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heptapod

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Registered: 2010-06-24

Posts: 35

[Solved] Filesystem check failed after removing harddrive

I have a harddrive in a arch computer which is not listed in fstab and not used as root, boot or home. I want to remove it from the computer, but when I try this I get the error filesystem check failed. I get the option to repair, and then get logged in as root. Here I can see my ordinary boot, root and home with fdisk -l. How can I tell the computer that there is nothing wrong, that I dont want use that disk? I searched the forum for this error and found a recommendation to use e2fsck, but since the error is because of the removed disk I cant do that.

Last edited by heptapod (2011-04-28 07:51:23)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,589

Re: [Solved] Filesystem check failed after removing harddrive

Perhaps removing the disk changes what your bios reports as sda sdb etc

heptapod

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Registered: 2010-06-24

Posts: 35

Re: [Solved] Filesystem check failed after removing harddrive

That was it, thanks. The boot partition somehow got a new name. I updated it in /etc/fstab and now it works.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,353

Re: [Solved] Filesystem check failed after removing harddrive

Moderator -- Please add [Solved] to the thread title by editing your first post.  Thanks

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: [Solved] Filesystem check failed after removing harddrive

Always use persistent block device naming to prevent this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming