Skip fsck on startup

[ejmilne]

Hello,
I'm new to Lunix and have a Red Hat Enterprise server installed. After a powercut on the weekend, one of the filesystem (not an important one) wont pass a fsck - does anyone know how I can bypass the fsck for a particular filesystem?

 

[KenCunningham]

In Solaris, there is a flag which can be set in /etc/vfstab. Not sure whether Red Hat has an equivalent?

When one door closes another one bangs shut too.

 

[rzs0502]

You can boot into single user mode.
With Lilo, you can select the OS from the menu and add a 1 to the end.
Eg.
boot: Linux 1
Edit /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 /data reiserfs noauto

The noauto option will not try to mount the filesystem on reboot.
Reboot to multi-user mode and you can try to recover the filesystem.


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[m4ilm4n]

I had to do this once before, and IIRC if you boot to single-user mode, touch a file called /fastboot, then reboot. The presence of /fastboot will bypass the fsck at boot.