From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OclLe-0003D2-Pm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:29:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27880E0924; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD131E0924 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so591835ewy.40 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=fhzeu43i7mMeOliWLoyA/nLEwRByovsehUmPMTAW72M=; b=owXRGB04VWcLCnRNpEBDD/0Bu2ShnmgNeRMEpRtGB6Mm8Hr6sZevacZyOgt2XD8Ts3 tL+OfcFGHlMBYC4wOvULFuA7LdfMEMxrK7SyuoU6vledbRIzSi6uose1Z4dFv/eWJ6Uo PYGfvQ2r6VLdxEGsZxo+p/NBhBPfHLHVhO1bc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=PaFlhisHAbm3jCYh2VgCg6ftnYmCdNmAEBuA5i9kxhRkSimPoQNhsL0/eYtr3EoW/s nUxsxbXW7ZzVUjaHy+5blA/kYDxRzaW/I7Y6VPTbn3AcaNCO20kO/YigPiGMTC5YqXtC q9VYM16ACtpVHdS9Z+pSSKgE12OvS0bpCnPOE= Received: by 10.213.25.145 with SMTP id z17mr1964641ebb.84.1280003323175; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-170.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm2669810eei.12.2010.07.24.13.28.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:21:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> In-Reply-To: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201007242221.12550.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 58ce12bb-f8f2-4dee-90c1-7c18fc91eeea X-Archives-Hash: 220f3d2b919c3ed748037c0c7f1fcd84 On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: > Hi there, > > my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly > but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from > houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ... > > Anyway the box won't boot anymore. grub starts up. Kernel boots. Then > there is checking root file system (or something like that).The message > is that my ext2 file system can not be read. That I might want to try > the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193 > > Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my > workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. > Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. > > /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. > > What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make a few minor checks. This takes about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2 check. I think you might need to fsck without the journal. I know there's a way to do this but a cursory glance at the man page didn't reveal it. Maybe an ext user will chip in with the correct method -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com