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reduce fsck time through lvm design considerations
I need to create two 9 TB file systems and i am struggling to design it. how does fsck work under the cover?
I have two options:
1. I create two 9TB LUNs at storage and create VG on them and then ...
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ClearOS - how to avoid getting stuck at a fsck message at boot?
I have had this happen a couple times - I have a ClearOS Enterprise 5.2 box, and due to a power outage or similar, it ends up showing an error at boot and saying that fsck needs to be run (I think it ...
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Do linux filesystems retain a count of how many times they have been fsck'd?
Do linux filesystems retain a count of how many times they have been fsck'd?
ext2 and ext3 are of particular interest
I have hundreds of systems and I would like to know how many times each ...
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Ubuntu Server live cd rescue mode can't run fsck
I have an ubuntu server virtual machine that crashed and I was forced to reset the virtual machine. When I booted, it did an automatic fsck, but I want to make sure that the filesystem is ok. I have ...
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CentOS - Automatically run fsck on boot into recovery
I'm automating a process to upgrade my ext3 filesystem to ext4. Following the instructions from here I'm able to successfully migrate my filesystem. I've scripted the vast majority of the work, and ...
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How can I locally analyze SMART logs from a server?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 server running on a desktop at home. I rebooted, and the machine was unreachable after 10 minutes or so. At this point I should have connected a console (monitor using VGA cable). ...
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Run fsck -y everytime at startup on my main partition Linux
I have an embedded linux system. I use grub2 for the boot loader. I would like to run an fsck -y /dev/sda on /dev/sda every time it boots--even when the system had a power loss and the reboot command ...
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is there an fsck for .iso disk images?
I have an iso file on a hard drive that's been having problems. Is there any way to check that the file didn't get corrupted, like an fsck for iso file systems?
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Debian - fsck fails at boot, but successful in maintenance mode or in regular mode upon unmounting partition
Background
We have development Debian server, which I am moving now to Hyper-V host.
As Debian does not see more than 127 Gb harddrive on startup (prior to Microsoft Linux Integration tools ...
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Why fsck without umount results in filesystem corruption?
Everyone says that you shouldn't do fsck to a disk without umount, because it will result in filesystem corruption.Actually I tried to fsck a mounted disk and the filesystem is corrupted.
That's few ...
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e2fsck / resize2fs problems
I've got 6 drives (each 1.5T, all same model and firmware revision) that are part of a RAID5 array. The RAID5 makes a LVM volume group and a logical group. The latter contains only one ext3 partition.
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EXT3-FS: error (loop0) ext3_lookup unlinking inode
Running CentOS 5.6 with mdadm RAID1, 2TB, 3 partitions (boot, swap and root). I had a kernel panic in the server, and after rebooting, the system stays up for about 5-10 minutes, the it starts ...
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Can I run fsck on a partition which is unmounted but on a live machine?
I have a server which has 4 drives which are each mounted to different areas. I have 2 drives which are giving me trouble and would like to run fsck on them. Can I unmount those drives, run fsck on ...
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run fsck on mounted partition
Is there any possibility to run fsck if I have one ext3 partition /dev/sda1 only?
File system is in the read-only mode, reboot did not help - automatic fsck failed and manual one is required. I have ...
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Check progress on already running fsck process [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you get e2fsck to show progress information?
Is there a way to check the progress of fsck.ext3 under Ubuntu, if I'm logged in remotely?
Obviously the time taken ...
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Recovery via fsck
I was recently hit by the AWS issues in Ireland, lost a volume, and need to attempt a recovery..
I've attached the problem volume to /dev/sdf -
I'm completely new to this, not entirely sure what's ...
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Mac OS X 10.6.6 NetBoot imaged machines running fsck on boot
I have created a NetInstall image of a OS X 10.6.6 machine in our organization for easy deployment of new machines. This has worked out great for us with the exception of the machines running fsck on ...
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Fstab mounting fails at boot, but succeeds when invoked manually
Background
On our development/backup server at my company we have 4 drives which are setup using software Raid 1, like this:
Raid 1 (system disk): 2 x 320 GB
Raid 1 (store/backup disk): 2 x 2 TB
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fsck.ext4: How to force to check the whole file system?
It seems fsck.ext4 quit very soon, I guess it only checks the journal logs, and do nothing if the journal is clean. Is it? How to force it to check the whole file system? I've tried the -f option, but ...
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e2fsck on large filesystem fails with Error : Memory Allocation Failed
I'm trying to use e2fsck on a large raid array that is 2TB large and uses GPT for partitioning (because of size).
There is only 1GB of ram installed on the system and I do not have the ability to add ...
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How to run fsck on startup after a crash without the root password?
when the Red Hat 5.x workstation of a user crashes and leaves its filesystems with errors, on the next boot, it ask for the root password to enter single mode and run fsck manually.
This is annoying ...
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CentOS 5.6 unexpected inconsistency how to repair?
This morning I found that my server was not responding and wasn't able to connect to it in anyway to do a safe reboot. I had to do pull the plug to reboot. Upon rebooting everything appeared to be ...
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Is there a way to ignore the “fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve LABEL” error during the boot?
We have a file-cluster on servers with multiple disks, and we have created a software RAID1 over boot and / partitions, planning that if a single disk goes down, we still will be able to boot and ...
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Problem fixing ext3 root file system using fsck on CentOS 5
When I run a read-only fsck on the mounted root partition of a CentOS 5 server, it finds a number of errors. However, running a forced check upon next boot does not find any!
Here are the results of ...
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How to check fsck results, ran at boot, on remote machine?
I did touch /forcefsck && reboot on remote machine, using Ubuntu 9.10.
How I can find out if there were any errors corrected? How I can find out what the result of the fsck was?
Thanks
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What are the files list-l and list-c in Ubuntu after fsck on boot
I did fsck on ext4 on reboot on Ubuntu 9.10 by:
cd /forcefsck && reboot.
This went fine, but two new files appeared afterwards in /:
list-l and list-c. Both are empty.
What is the ...
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tune2fs: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/sda1?
My hard disk is going to bad:
Apr 3 20:26:48 207 kernel: aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0)
Apr 3 20:26:48 207 kernel: aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?
Apr 3 20:26:58 ...
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linux file system allowing check while in use?
Is there a file system for linux where it's possible (and safe) to perform a file system check while it's mounted read write or which does not need to be checked periodically ?
E.g. a file system ...
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How to recover a lost logical volume
Due to clvmd stalling the kernel (http://serverfault.com/questions/226466/lvm-running-vgscan-causes-clvmd-to-block) I decided to hard reboot the host because the soft reboot stalled. But when it ...
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CentOS - skip “Checking root filesystem”
I have a CentOS box that hangs for like 8 hours at "Checking root filesystem" every time it reboots.
Is there some way to skip that check?
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Can't fsck From Live CD
I'm trying to run fsck from a Linux Mint Julia live CD, but something seems to be going wrong. When I run:
sudo fsck /dev/sda5
I get the response
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.12 ...
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FSCK error in superblock causing Ubuntu Linux 64 bit failed to boot?
Today for strange reason, one of my Ubuntu 64 bit server Linux VM failed to start ?
it stopped in the FSCK scan status with the error as attached.
few days back I've added new hard disk ...
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Ubuntu Server - Power failure leads to boot failure
I have installed Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 LTS on an ext4 partition. Whenever my system looses power suddenly, It doesn't boot into the normal procedure to fix the problems automatically, but switches to ...
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Frequent dirty file systems
Good morning,
I'm seeing an issue on a few servers that they are going 'dirty' a lot, around once a month.
For example: This was on 11/8:
# tune2fs -l /dev/sda7 | grep state
Filesystem state: ...
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Is there a way to reduce the avarage time it takes to fsck a device?
I don't want to avoid doing a fsck, but I would like to know if there is a better approach so it doesn't take ages to complete the process when it runs after a reboot 180 days later.
If you had it ...
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CentOS server boots but won't allow login (ext3_abort_called, remounts read-only)
I've got a CentOS 5.5 server (HP ProLiant with two-disk RAID array) that was working fine until a power failure last week. (Long story, but UPS was not properly configured at that time.) After the ...
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skip fsck on boot on ubuntu 10.04 server
We are sitting here in front of an ubuntu 10.04 server who insists doing a lengthy checkdisk during reboot.
We see one option to edit the kernel boot options line in grub to skip the check.
What ...
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Causes of sudden massive filesystem damage? (“root inode is not a directory”)
I have a laptop running Maverick (very happily until yesterday), with a Patriot Torx SSD; LUKS encryption of the whole partition; one lvm physical volume on top of that; then home and root in ext4 ...
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e2fsck aborts: memory allocation failed
I am trying to fix a 9 TB filesystem with e2fsck, however the scan always fails after about 10% or so with the following error:
Error storing directory block information: ... Memory allocation failed
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Silent e2fsck - safe to stop?
Before a grow on a 8 TB RAID5, I am currently doing an e2fsck.
While the RAID was running w/o issues before (I switched from Ubuntu to CentOS 5.4 because I needed a specific hardware driver), the ...
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How to repair ext3 boot partition?
I have a small VIA Ubuntu server used as firewall and a second one with Ubuntu desktop for hosting different services (web, mail, ...).
For an unknown reason some errors occurred in the sda1 ...
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Invalid argument on fsck of a 2GB VFAT filesystem
I wanted to run fsck to repair a VFAT filesystem on a 2GB SD card, on Fedora 12. I got an 'invalid argument' error as seen below. What does it mean in this context? Is it not possible to check a ...
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How to check (fsck) a filesystem on a md device (linux/mdadm)
I have a partition lying on a software raid device, /dev/md4
On boot, fsck fails and the partiton cannot be mounted.
Trying to fsck manually, I get an error:
sudo fsck /dev/md4
fsck from ...
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Why won't xfs_check run?
I'm running a fully updated Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i686 server. I have an single XFS volume in an LVM group called /dev/mapper/vg0-bigthree.
If I boot to single user mode and ensure that the volume is ...
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Failed MDADM Array With Ext.4 Partition - “e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/md0”
Had a power failure and now my mdadm array is having problems.
sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0
[hodge@hodge-fs ~]$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Sun ...
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JFS: long fsck time on large filesystem?
There was a power failure recently that took down one of my servers. On reboot, the main storage filesystem - JFS on a 7TB (9x1TB RAID6) filesystem - needed an fsck before mounting read-write. After I ...
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running automated fsck on remote server
I had another question about df, and now i came to conclusion i need to run fsck my partition, i've been reading about it and would like some advice, if possible.
The situation is like this, no ...
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Ask filesystem if it is mounted
How can I see if a (ext3) filesystem is mounted by asking the filesystem directly (i.e. the same way that the system does when it boots and sees that it was not unmounted cleanly)? Checking the ...
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Surprising corruption and never-ending fsck after resizing a filesystem
System in question has Debian Lenny installed, running a 2.6.27.38 kernel. System has 16Gb memory, and 8x1Tb drives running behind a 3Ware RAID card.
The storage is managed via LVM, and is ...
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fsck: FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED after each check with -c, why?
I use a script to partition and format CF cards (connected with a USB card writer) in an automated way. After the main process I check the card again with fsck. To check bad blocks I also tried the ...
