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

[KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de>]

Am 24.07.2010 22:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote:
>> Hi there,
[...]
>> 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
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3
/dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds.

Regards
kh