On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: [ description of problem, and Oliver's helpful advice snipped ] : > : >Checking root file system : >Parallelizing fsck : >/dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced : >/dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 : >/dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY : >FSCK FAIL. lease repair manually and reboot. : >Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read only. To : >remount it write : >#mount -n -o remount,rw /
You should have run fsck at this point, and _then_ remounted it read/write. As you discovered, mounting a filesystem read/write when errors are present is not good. : >I remounted as requested and got (well, it did't request that you do so; it was telling you how) : > : >EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended. : >EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: wrong free blocks : >count in super block, Stored = 3170112, counted = 3170136 : > EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: wrong free inodes : >count in super block, Stored = 977529, counted = 977522 : > : >I then tried #fsck and got : > : >Parallelizing fsck version 1.10. : > : >#fsck -r gave same thing. : > : >Then tried #e2fsck /dev/hda2 as advised above and got : > : >/dev/hda2 is mounted. Do you want to continue (y/n). : : You really have no choice but to say yes here. You can't unmount your root : file system without shutting down altogether! : : > : >I cautiously responded n. I also tried #rdev -R/vmlinuz 1 which Sobell's : >book says should : >force Linux to boot with root file system mounted readonly, and got : > : >1: no such file or directory. : > : > : >I am now at a standstill. Any help on what to do next would be much : >appreciated. In your situation, I would boot from the rescue floppy, and manually fsck your partition(s). You could also mount them after fsck'ing, and poke around to see if everything's where it ought to be; alternatively, you could just reboot and cross your fingers. You really shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem, which of course is problematic in the case of the root filesystem. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
