Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

[James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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<device>
>>
>> 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
>
>
>

Run e2fsck -f /dev/hda3 to force check a partition. I have had to do 
that when my kids yanked all the drives out of a server that I was 
setting up. :-)
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