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I have a Voyage Linux (a Debian derived system) computer (which is headless, ie no display). The root filesystem is marked as corrupted and there are actually some errors.

I would like to fix these errors, but I can't. I tried several things (shutdown -rF now, touch /forcefsck, set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, tune2fs -c 1 -C 1 /myfilesystem): no check is done.

After some searches I discovered that the /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh was set to check the /dev/root filesystem:

   fstabroot=/dev/root
   #...
   rootcheck=yes

while df told me this:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                     3541948   1156324   2205660  35% /
/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS 3541948   1156324   2205660  35% /

tune2fs indicates this:

# tune2fs -l /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem volume name:   ROOT_FS
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash 
Default mount options:    (none)
Filesystem state:         not clean with errors
Errors behavior:          Continue
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Filesystem created:       Tue Mar 13 09:49:14 2012
Last mount time:          Sat Jan  1 02:36:20 2000
Last write time:          Tue Apr 14 08:38:22 2026
Mount count:              3
Maximum mount count:      1
Last checked:             Fri Jun 15 20:55:44 2012
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)

My fstab looks like:

#/dev/hda1      /       ext2    defaults,noatime,rw     0       0
proc            /proc   proc    defaults                0       0
tmpfs       /tmp    tmpfs   nosuid,nodev        0   0
#tmpfs           /rw    tmpfs   defaults,size=32M       0       0

The only way I found to force fsck to run was to modify the /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh setting the following values:

   fstabroot=/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
   #...
   rootcheck=yes

and then perform 'touch /forcefsck' and reboot

I believe this is a quick and dirty fix to make my FS be repaired.

What can I do to repair this volume using a better practice ?

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If you want a partition to be checked during boot, you have to turn on the sixth field - fsckorder bit ON in /etc/fstab. If you set that field to zero then fsck won't check the filesystem. For instance for the root(/) partition you can do this - 

/dev/hda1      /       ext2    defaults,noatime,rw     0       1
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  • My root partition is not mounted with fstab but by grub. I don't know if it is a good thing to mount it also in fstab. Is it ?
    – lauhub
    Feb 21, 2013 at 19:46
  • I am not sure if it is a good idea, have never worked with Voyage. You can add it to fstab once though and remove it once done. Or boot your machine in single user mode, remount root partition in rw mode, and do fsck. Then reboot it.
    – Daniel t.
    Feb 21, 2013 at 20:39
  • Voyage-Linux is a Debian derived distro. AFAIK, it works like a Debian. So could it be safe to add the following line to fstab ? /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS / ext2 defaults,noatime,rw 0 1 I am about to try but I don't know if it would cause a conflict with already mounted rootfs.
    – lauhub
    Feb 23, 2013 at 16:47
  • I made some tests and finally, this is the right solution. Thanks
    – lauhub
    Feb 27, 2013 at 12:04
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I think that e2fsck cannot correct certain errors on the volume it is run from. This is why I always have a small additional Linux installation.

How do you make changes ("set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS") on a corropted filesystem?

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  • The whole FS is not corrupted, so I just can edit many files. However, there are some errors on the FS that I cannot repair.
    – lauhub
    Feb 21, 2013 at 16:24
  • FSCKFIX=yes was already set and it was not that which prevented fsck to run at boot.
    – lauhub
    Feb 27, 2013 at 12:03

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