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 1OctIg-00021V-Az for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:58:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACFAAE07D1; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5EE07D1 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-099-234-192.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.99.234.192]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M2YjJ-1Ov6aQ1v7t-00spK0; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:57:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4C4BC447.6010803@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:57:43 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100628 Thunderbird/3.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <201007242221.12550.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201007242221.12550.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:BYWvC5L+2IhTCxlN9lODHSxln0jTlXwcK4ksst1r36U Ree2+WWHnYnHR9nA6DnnF4ROPOA68PjxMGvG7/gMWzTFCPCarv PHFMcb6zE13eN6XZp06M/Zf2HRPe3WVPj0uvTN5N7sVrJ9XRLx 8mNIeXUPgcJ9uFb7L064wOw+14HEiN+U9oHX8gjM6UkeviAjJn m+ScumzLgRxChdTELQYog== X-Archives-Salt: 7e662e65-472e-4e12-a01f-06ee53027508 X-Archives-Hash: 81c9f9363fa8fc6c9b0789eeeac56d1c 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 >> >> 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