e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count reached" during
boot?
Ralph Crongeyer
rcrongeyer at rpicc.com
Wed Apr 23 12:13:25 GMT 2003
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 12:08 pm, Shern, Benjamin J wrote:
Great! Thanks for the help. Yea I fixed it this morning by booting with the
lunar cd and then running fsck from there, so to test I'll change the time
interval to test. Here it goes.......
Ralph
> If you're already overdue for a fsck I think you'll get one anyway, I don't
> think you need to change the interval to every day. But yes - I believe
> that should work.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ralph Crongeyer [mailto:rcrongeyer at rpicc.com]
> > Sent: April 23, 2003 10:04 AM
> > To: Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)
> > Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count
> > reached" during boot?
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 11:49 am, Shern, Benjamin J wrote:
> >
> > OK, if I change the 0 to a 1 and run tune2fs -i 1 /dev/hda2
> > to change the
> > amount of time to 1 day then reboot it should run fsck right?
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> > > This here is the culprit -
> > > According to the fstab(5) manpage the last digit for root
> >
> > should be 1 and
> >
> > > all others should be 2. Lunar install defaults to 0
> >
> > which means don't
> >
> > > check....
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Shern, Benjamin J
> > > > Sent: February 12, 2003 10:59 AM
> > > > To: 'lunar at lunar-linux.org'
> > > > Subject: Root disk not getting fsck
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yikes!!!
> > > >
> > > > My root partition was not getting fsck'ed after an
> >
> > unclean dismount.
> >
> > > > I believe I see why:
> > > >
> > > > Just a heads-up for those of you who have a /boot partition
> > > > on ext2 and /
> > > > partition on some other fs type.....
> > > >
> > > > Check your /etc/fstab and make sure the last digit is
> > > > non-zero on any
> > > > partitions you care about!
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > lunar.install from the .iso :
> > > >
> > > > determine_fstab_settings() {
> > > >
> > > > LAST="0 0"
> > > > case $FSYS in
> > > > swap) OPTIONS="defaults" ;;
> > > > reiserfs) OPTIONS="defaults,notail,noatime" ;;
> > > > ext3) OPTIONS="defaults,noatime" ;;
> > > > xfs) OPTIONS="defaults,noatime"
> > > > ;;
> > > > ext2) OPTIONS="defaults,noatime"
> > > > case $POINT in
> > > > /) LAST="0 1" ;;
> > > > *) LAST="0 2" ;;
> > > > esac
> > > > ;;
> > > > esac
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Shern, Benjamin J
> >
> > [mailto:ShernBJ at louisville.stortek.com]
> >
> > > > Sent: April 23, 2003 9:46 AM
> > > > To: 'Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)'
> > > > Subject: RE: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count
> > > > reached" during boot?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The root partition should be mounted read-only - at which
> > > > point it can
> > > > be fsck'ed. After it comes back clean, it should be
> > > > mounted read-write.
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Terry Chan [mailto:tpchan at attbi.com]
> > > > > Sent: April 23, 2003 9:41 AM
> > > > > To: lunar at lunar-linux.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count
> > > > > reached" during boot?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ralph,
> > > > >
> > > > > No it can't really happen automatically. Slight chicken
> > > > > and egg problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > You can't run e2fsck on a partition that is
> >
> > mounted already
> >
> > > > > -- it must be run
> > > > > against a partition that is NOT mounted. Egg part is that
> > > > > the e2fsck binary is
> > > > > only located on the partition that you are trying to fsck.
> > > > > That's why you
> > > > > need to boot from another source like the ISO to run
> > > >
> > > > e2fsck. See ?
> > > >
> > > > > Terry Chan
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:51:48AM -0400, Ralph
> >
> > Crongeyer wrote:
> > > > > > Terry, Thanks for the response. I just did that and it
> > > > >
> > > > > worked with no
> > > > >
> > > > > > problems! Thanks!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But shouldn't this be happining automatically when the
> > > > >
> > > > > maximal mount count is
> > > > >
> > > > > > reached?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ralph
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ralph,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Boot your Lunar box with any version of the Lunar
> > > > >
> > > > > Install/Rescue ISO.
> > > > >
> > > > > > > e2fsck is of course included on the ISO.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > After the ISO is booted, get to the point in the
> > > > >
> > > > > install process before
> > > > >
> > > > > > > you have to mount partitions and just use the menu
> > > > >
> > > > > option to drop to
> > > > >
> > > > > > > a shell prompt. From there you can run
> >
> > "e2fsck /dev/dha2".
> >
> > > > > > > Terry Chan
> > > > >
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