A while back I got kicked out of graphical mode, I then ended up buying a new pc case, 3 fans, a 400W continous power supply and a new Hard Drive Seagate with S.M.A.R.T support. I reinstalled everything, but I kept my other hard-drive also, I have it so that the installation was installed on the new primary hard-drive, but my /home and /srv are mounted onto my old hard-drive, my thinking was that if something went wrong I could reinstall and remount without loss of data.... Both hd's are either ext2 or 3 (not reiserfs).... However, upon booting up I'm now being told: fsk failed. try #mount -n -o remount, rw / but when I try this doesn't work ? Problem seems to be on hda2, is this my old hard-drive.... and even if so why can't I login at least since the os is supposed to be on the primary hard-drive.... I just can't believe it anymore... Is there anything I can do to try and retrieve the files on /srv (this being the secondary drive) ???? G. -- devosc
* devosc <devosc@gmail.com> [03-03-05 06:10]:
I reinstalled everything, but I kept my other hard-drive also, I have it so that the installation was installed on the new primary hard-drive, but my /home and /srv are mounted onto my old hard-drive, my thinking was that if something went wrong I could reinstall and remount without loss of data....
Both hd's are either ext2 or 3 (not reiserfs)....
However, upon booting up I'm now being told:
fsk failed.
try #mount -n -o remount, rw /
but when I try this doesn't work ?
Problem seems to be on hda2, is this my old hard-drive.... and even if so why can't I login at least since the os is supposed to be on the primary hard-drive....
Instead of trying to remount, do as root: e2fsck -y /dev/hda2 This *should* resolve your problem but you *might* suffer some file loss depending. WARNING: if the disk is large and ext2, the time required may be lengthy. If it is ext3, time will be *much* shorter. gud luk, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
prior (during) to your post, I was in the middle of trying #fsck /dev/hda2 and said yes to everything... guess what, I'm back !!!! I'm going to have to dissapear have give thanks !!!!! However, ok.... is there anything thing that I can do to follow up up on this ? i.e. I noticed that you said to try 'e2fsck', recalling now I am using ext3.... is it worth trying to do the e2fsck again (somehow).... ? I can start breathing again..... thanks..... G. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:36:49 -0500, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* devosc <devosc@gmail.com> [03-03-05 06:10]:
I reinstalled everything, but I kept my other hard-drive also, I have it so that the installation was installed on the new primary hard-drive, but my /home and /srv are mounted onto my old hard-drive, my thinking was that if something went wrong I could reinstall and remount without loss of data....
Both hd's are either ext2 or 3 (not reiserfs)....
However, upon booting up I'm now being told:
fsk failed.
try #mount -n -o remount, rw /
but when I try this doesn't work ?
Problem seems to be on hda2, is this my old hard-drive.... and even if so why can't I login at least since the os is supposed to be on the primary hard-drive....
Instead of trying to remount, do as root: e2fsck -y /dev/hda2
This *should* resolve your problem but you *might* suffer some file loss depending. WARNING: if the disk is large and ext2, the time required may be lengthy. If it is ext3, time will be *much* shorter.
gud luk, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
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-- devosc
* devosc <devosc@gmail.com> [03-03-05 06:52]:
prior (during) to your post, I was in the middle of trying #fsck /dev/hda2 and said yes to everything...
guess what, I'm back !!!!
Good.
However, ok.... is there anything thing that I can do to follow up up on this ? i.e. I noticed that you said to try 'e2fsck', recalling now I am using ext3.... is it worth trying to do the e2fsck again (somehow).... ?
No. The main difference between ext2 and ext3 (aiui) is journaling which appears to cut fsck times by approximately 10::1 (favor of ext3) and there is *no* difference between e2fsck, fsck.ext2 and fsck.ext3. ps: Please trim your quotes and avoid top posting. gud luk, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
ok... thanks... re trimming, ok... Cheers... G. -- devosc
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