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 1OcwQX-0004Ch-7w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:19:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5DB0E078E; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20ABE078E for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so1747681gwb.40 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:18:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yPGNU6SKZEnkIYxyZWvd7Qxc6TBna9Fq6AS7+oUXxCA=; b=bKRSgVkHZvrC6JhJR+eITpoOBkjf9lbtpAWDS710rtsWAUfQC+frdeaQGzLxMqhOT9 rn9NyLn/XmrCGTV46XBxKg8VS4w+kP8vqljB3vFV5EeCYBos85k+NTNAC8FXWiXI3LzE THryYGUe3V1FiA+OScIb6goPD3Wxus5YfB68U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XKNejvZow7DAEF8qTqRgFJvkeh/5z4q0fx3tlGGquD9TVvr2Rvya9vOLYpPI1WGoIh uBixiQmqg4NQjIFrO2oOfL56zn67POWGBJXkNvLFVV7JR5I2wTjIEkUsOtit6dz3PDw6 sMNCDCPXWqaopDm9oyYdSZKYmFTWNfocuQ96M= Received: by 10.100.214.14 with SMTP id m14mr3295888ang.99.1280045916777; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-240-55-146.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.55.146]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c19sm3983524ana.2.2010.07.25.01.18.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C4BF359.4020404@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:18:33 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100721 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 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> <4C4BC447.6010803@konstantinhansen.de> <201007250949.17739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201007250949.17739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d3e4f823-6a85-4ff0-92b2-9fcf24271f9d X-Archives-Hash: 465aa7241651ab74bace4f3d4eb87c2f Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: > >>> 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. >> > It's been a long time since I used ext3 so some of this might be wrong. > > An fsck that takes a few seconds is using the journal, which might not uncover > deeper corruption. You should try disabling the journal (I couldn't find the > way to do that though), but this will also work: > > Boot of a LiveCD, mount your root partition somewhere using type "ext2" and > fsck it. This will invalidate the journal but that's OK, it gets recreated on > the next proper boot. Let the fsck finish - it will take a while on a large > fs. > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. > > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. Dale :-) :-)