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 1OclLS-0003A1-5H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:29:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21EE9E093D; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54ECE093D for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eydd26 with SMTP id d26so320803eyd.40 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:46 -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:message-id :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fhzeu43i7mMeOliWLoyA/nLEwRByovsehUmPMTAW72M=; b=EApeUO59EyS8nJx9LaDwab+uj6FSUAZ911oLJ4fiDxtaZmAi4n9nTYSpLhdhD46pj0 MKChy84Kjq8Zy28kLq0B9YZpt5fTl0j3LHVLQ0/SBqk+btLVgo3Ve5ePICcMObDA+UcM hlRVh2tz1zHUqkHRKo8YTTwUwUUx9IUaO9Ew0= 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 :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t5Ccx8HqOZsgdFLoj+vf9ex7QYsUyP8eG/uASw8JBlAe73gKiCQicFK4o+6g68iLsw iBN7bEdmGbNu9u1UaV9Zf5Ccs0ZVLDWL7dNJ/UXCjogxPuq3xi6NTu6SlA3h6JRSdhAS 55rJ/HoAeB4ePF8lqHhpMg5EdR31hPivI2kVQ= Received: by 10.213.15.135 with SMTP id k7mr2011719eba.39.1280003326236; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:46 -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.12.2010.07.24.13.28.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:28:45 -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 22:25:30 +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 Message-Id: <201007242225.30909.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9c4f996b-e038-4816-a212-5ca72492ab26 X-Archives-Hash: be02962c9147cb67cba1d84d59115d56 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