Filesystem Problem! Need Help!!

[natemclain]

Hey guys & gals,

I need some help.
I just got a server that I had bought. And I get this when it goes through and starts booting up. And it starts to check the File System.
/UnExpected Inconsistency; RUN fsck Manually
***An Error occurred during the file system check.
***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance.
(or type Control -D for normal startup)

When I login as Root and I get the command prompt I typed in fsck
But it tells me this.
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)

How do I fix this??


natemclain

 

[natemclain]

Well guys and gals,

I got my problem fixed. But for some of you newbies like myself this might help you later on.

I was getting this error:

/UnExpected Inconsistency; RUN fsck Manually
***An Error occurred during the file system check.
***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance.
(or type Control -D for normal startup)

So at the command prompt I did this.

(Repair Filesystem)# cat /etc/fstab
This gave me a list to the partitions. Then on each partition I did the following.

(Repair Filesystem)# fsck /boot
(Repair Filesystem)# fsck /home
(Repair Filesystem)# fsck /usr
(Repair Filesystem)# fsck /var
After that I rebooted and still had a problem.
So I did this.
(Repair Filesystem)# fsck /
and it asked me a bunch of questions if I wanted to fix the problem? And of course I wanted to fix it so I hit Y on all of the questions and reboot. And got to the Login: Screen.

I hope that helps someone someday!


natemclain

 

[marsd]

e2fsck -v -y will take care of the pesky error by error
prompt, but sometimes it is necessary to take a look at the problem and use something like tune2fs or (last resort) debugfs in the case of severe problems.
See man e2fsck..