Questions tagged [fsck]
a tool to check the consistency of and repair a file system for Unix-like operating systems
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Every startup i need to manually run fsck /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
Hi every day when I start my ubuntu 18.04, then it's not starting and gives a below error.
(initramfs) exit
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Inodes that ...
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serviceable ext3 partition ruined by fsck
I've got several systems with an ext3 lv / that work just fine until fsck'd — then they are unrecoverably corrupted.
What hope do I have of repairing these systems, and, separately, what went wrong?
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Recover JFS partition with duplicate block references
After a nasty server crash I was unable to mount a JFS partition on Linux. The jfs_fsck tool returns
Duplicate block references have been detected in Metadata. CANNOT CONTINUE.
processing terminated:...
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fsck.ext4 complaining that the device is in use. Can't find what exactly is using it
Our setup is a 3-node RHEL 7.3 bare-metal Kubernetes cluster running on Docker.
We have a multipath FC SAN block device discovered on all three nodes. This device is used as a Kubernetes Persistent ...
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Partition mounted and unmounted simultaneously
Edit: Narrowed this down to virtfs mounts.
To jump to the question, mount says the partition is already mounted and umount says that the partition is already unmounted, and fsck agrees with mount. ...
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What is the safe way to run fsck or badblocks on a XenServer local storage repository?
I have a XenServer host with six large local disks as storage repositories, which are mounted in pairs in three VMs, and NFS shared from the VMs to provide backup volumes for multiple hypervisors of ...
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Fsck finds errors in OS, but not using LiveCD
Running fsck on a booted machine yields errors on the root file system. In an attempt to fix this, I booted from a LiveCD - but fsck on the LiveCD instance doesn't find any errors at all. I also tried ...
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How to repair multiply-claimed blocks?
I get a lot of the following logs in dmesg:
[26159.277230] EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_iget:3875: inode #394497188: comm mv: bad extended attribute block 22794025699896
[26219.914802] EXT4-fs ...
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How to add a partition to CentOS without losing data on it
we had a CentOS 6.4 server with two RAIDs. One RAID-1 and the other RAID-5
RAID-1 had multiple partitions with OS installed on it.
RAID-5 had two partitions with some data on it.
In order to ...
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Directory index full, is this fsck result OK?
I found these in my /var/log/messages:
kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device md2): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!
kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device md2): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!
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CentOS default never fsck root partition on start up?
Most documentation or sites will say use "tune2fs -l " to check if the system will do fsck on the system partitions on next boot, in particular, should look at "Mount count" and "Maximum mount count" ...
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e2fsck miserably aborts: memory allocation failed on 64 bit OS and scratch directory
After an unsuccessful Virtualbox VDI drive resize following the instructions here, the primary ext4 partition became of unknown type.
I fixed this with testdisk and then boot-repair, which made it be ...
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Can't seem to fsck remote server drive with ubuntu server 10.04 LTS
I've been getting a lot of crashes on my remote dedicated server - after they occur (in all sorts of different processes) the server becomes unresponsive and I have to reboot it. They all look ...
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Repair a forced fsck-ed LUKS volume
In a moment of distraction, I'v managed to run:
# fsck -Ty /dev/sda1, where /dev/sda1* was a LUKS encypted volume.
I don't have a recent backup, so I can't restore. And the backup I have is for the ...
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How to rebuild the filesystem of a recovered partition
I managed to ruin a server drive by trying to clone it to another drive with dd. In the process, the original boot and sda1 partitions were overwritten.
I immediatly stopped using the drive,I made an ...
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mkfs + any solution for “could not read block” or disk replacing
we doing mkfs on the disk sda as the following
mkfs.ext4 -j -m 0 /dev/sda -F
mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block to filesystem resulted in short ...
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`fsck` does some work, then aborts/stops. How to make it continue to run?
I have a filesystem on a LVM device which suffered a disk failure. Some data was lost (since one of the 4 disks which had data is gone). I am trying to mount this filesystem so as to recover as much ...
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Error in My Hard Disk on Debian (OSSIM)
I have a Problem with my Debian (OSSIM), after a three days I can't create or edit any files, because of this issue:
root@ossim:~$ mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Read-only file ...
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Impact of disabling automatic fsck on reboot
I have a client on cloud hosting with some sizable drives on the vps. Twice in the past year after a forced reboot the server was down for a few hours because fsck ran automatically when the server ...
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ext4 corruption leading to unbootable disk. Partition is mountable, but grub detects unknown filesystem
I'm trying to recover from a system disk corruption issue without having to reinstall the OS, which would be super-painful currently.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, the affected partition is ext4 and on a ...
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Ubuntu ntfsundelete on md0 software raid after fsck
System was failing and the colocation facility ran fsck -y on a raid that had some important data. The result is a lost+found folder with 2 million files in it. It is possible to get any of the ...
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what does fsck.ext3 do on a partition that contains a portion of unformatted space?
I always thought fsck operated on the filesystem level only, but recently I came across the following procedure for growing an ext3 partition: https://www.howtoforge.com/...
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Ubuntu - Folder replaced by lost+found/ on raid1 disks
Running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
I have setup a RAID1 on disks sdb & sdc (md0) following strictly this tutorial which I guess is very classical. I loaded data on my disk for archive purposes.
A ...
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After doing an fsck of a partition, the partition is now empty
I'm sorry if the title is misleading however I did not know how to ask the question in a better way.
At work I had to install windows on a machine that had debian. I has three partitions one for root,...
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force fsck to fail on boot
I am working on a embedded debian linux device. Owing to the power being pulled at any time resulting in a sudden power loss, we have set FSCKFIX from "no" to "yes" in the /etc/default/rcS file. ...
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fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve UUID but gparted shows the correct UUID
I'm running CentOS6 on a PowerSpecG211 with a RAID level 1 array (2x2TB) and a couple of SSD's
Yesterday afternoon the partition for /var ran out of space while I was doing some stuff in mysql and ...
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FSCK run and unmount issue
A partition /dev/sdb in web my server has failed FSCK check but I can't seem to figure out a way to repair it. OS is CentOS 6.8.
In /etc/fstab, I have commented out this partition.
I used the ...
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Recover RAID 1 after unclean unmount
I have two drives in my desktop in RAID 1. My computer locked up on me yesterday, so I used SysRq REISUB for a "safe" restart. When the machine booted back up, I realized there was no data on my RAID ...
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Disaster recovery. MDADM/LVM2 Some advance but stuck on final mount
We made a stupid upgrade on a running server using wrong repositories and the system became totally unbootable.
The system, a SLES 11 we used a openSuse repository to upgrade, and everything went ...
