Skipping filesystem check in fbplash

Hey.
I understand filesystem check is important, however sometimes I need to boot up quickly and skip it for a while (for example, when in a lecture). However, I recently started using fbsplash, and since then I cant use the regular "ctrl + c" to skip it anymore. Is there another way to skip it while in fbsplash?
If its relevant I'm using fbcondecor kernel and fbsplash with arch-black theme. And i used the regular kernel before starting to use fbsplash, if thats also relevant.
Thank you in advance

IIRC
touch /fastboot
the opposite is creating a file /forcefsck.
Edit: The speed of filesytem check depends (I think) on power of your cpu, on the size of the filesystem and on the filesystem type: a 40GB ext4 fsck takes about 2 seconds on a P4 2 GHz.. ext3 took several times longer.
Last edited by karol (2010-09-02 19:17:11)

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[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded libdrm (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.11-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded libgl (7.4.1-1 -> 7.4.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded mesa (7.4.1-1 -> 7.4.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded wxgtk (2.8.9.2-1 -> 2.8.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded amule (2.2.4-1 -> 2.2.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded x264 (20090216-1 -> 20090416-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded avidemux (2.4.4-2 -> 2.4.4-3)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded bin86 (0.16.17-3 -> 0.16.17-4)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gmp (4.2.4-1.1 -> 4.3.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded coreutils (7.2-1 -> 7.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dbus-core (1.2.4.4permissive-1 -> 1.2.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded glib2 (2.20.1-1 -> 2.20.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded bluez (4.37-1 -> 4.39-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded brasero (2.26.1-2 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded policykit (0.9-7 -> 0.9-9)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded consolekit (0.3.0-3 -> 0.3.0-5)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded cpio (2.9-3 -> 2.9-5)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded curl (7.19.4-1 -> 7.19.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dbus (1.2.4.4permissive-1 -> 1.2.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dcron (3.2-3 -> 3.2-4)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dhcpcd (4.0.12-1 -> 5.0.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dmapi (2.2.9-1 -> 2.2.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded docbook-xml (4.5-1 -> 4.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gconf (2.26.0-3 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-5 -> 1.8.3-6)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded sqlite3 (3.6.13-1 -> 3.6.14.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded python (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded eog (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded epiphany (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded poppler (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded evince (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded libsoup (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded evolution-data-server (2.26.1.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded ffmpeg (20090217-1 -> 0.5-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded file (5.00-1 -> 5.03-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded file-roller (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded findutils (4.4.0-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gcalctool (5.26.1-1 -> 5.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] installed ppl (0.10.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] installed cloog-ppl (0.15.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gcc (4.3.3-1 -> 4.4.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gtksourceview2 (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gedit (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded glproto (1.4.9-1 -> 1.4.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-games (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded whois (4.7.33-1 -> 4.7.33-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-nettool (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded policykit-gnome (0.9.2-3 -> 0.9.2-4)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-panel (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-power-manager (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded vte (0.20.1-1 -> 0.20.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-terminal (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gtk-engines (2.18.1-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-themes (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome2-user-docs (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gparted (0.4.4-2 -> 0.4.5-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad (0.10.11-1 -> 0.10.12-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libraw1394 (1.3.0-2 -> 2.0.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libusb1 (1.0.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdc1394 (2.0.3-1 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdvdread (0.9.7-2 -> 4.1.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdvdnav (0.1.10-3 -> 4.1.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded neon (0.28.3-2 -> 0.28.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed liblrdf (0.4.0-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (0.10.11-3 -> 0.10.12-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libavc1394 (0.5.3-2 -> 0.5.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libiec61883 (1.1.0-1 -> 1.2.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libcaca (0.99.beta16-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.11-1 -> 0.10.11-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gtkhtml (3.26.1.1-1 -> 3.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gucharmap (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libarchive (2.6.2-1 -> 2.7.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] NOTE
[2009-05-30 23:31] ----
[2009-05-30 23:31] Add your user to group 'camera' to use camera devices.
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libgphoto2 (2.4.4-1 -> 2.4.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gvfs (1.2.2-1 -> 1.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gzip (1.3.12-4 -> 1.3.12-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded jfsutils (1.1.13-1 -> 1.1.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libsndfile (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded sox (14.2.0-2 -> 14.2.0-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed ilmbase (1.0.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed openexr (1.6.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libpng (1.2.35-1 -> 1.2.36-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded qt (4.5.0-5 -> 4.5.1-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed xine-lib (1.1.16.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed phonon (4.3.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed clucene (0.9.21b-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed exiv2 (0.18-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed strigi (0.6.4-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed soprano (2.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed xdg-utils (1.0.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdelibs (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdebase-runtime (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed fftw (3.2.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libofa (0.9.3-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed tunepimp (0.5.3-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdemultimedia (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed polkit-qt (0.9.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded k3b (1.0.5-2 -> 1.66.0alpha2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:32] upgraded qt3 (3.3.8-10 -> 3.3.8-11)
[2009-05-30 23:32] upgraded kdelibs3 (3.5.10-2 -> 3.5.10-3)
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> ----------------
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio
[2009-05-30 23:32]
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Building image "default"
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.29-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Begin dry run
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [autodetect]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [keymap]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Generating module dependencies
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Building image "fallback"
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.29-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Begin dry run
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [keymap]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
[2009-05-30 23:33] :: Generating module dependencies
[2009-05-30 23:33] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:33] ==> SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.29.2-1 -> 2.6.29.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc (1.5.15-1 -> 1.5.15-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-extras (2.5-2 -> 2.5-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-kbd (1.15.20080312-8 -> 1.15.20080312-9)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-module-init-tools (3.5-1 -> 3.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-udev (141-1 -> 141-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libdownload (1.3-1 -> 1.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libgsf (1.14.12-1 -> 1.14.13-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libsasl (2.1.22-7 -> 2.1.22-8)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded lsof (4.81-1 -> 4.82-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded lzo2 (2.02-3 -> 2.03-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded man-pages (3.20-2 -> 3.21-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded metacity (2.26.0-1 -> 2.26.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mlocate (0.21.1-1 -> 0.22-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mplayer (28347-4 -> 29318-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mtools (4.0.10-1 -> 4.0.10-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded nautilus (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded net-tools (1.60-13 -> 1.60-14)
[2009-05-30 23:33] * relogin or source /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh
[2009-05-30 23:33] * see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice
[2009-05-30 23:33] how to use extensions, e.g. for spell checking
[2009-05-30 23:33] see /opt/openoffice/share/extension/install what
[2009-05-30 23:33] is shipped with this package
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded openoffice-base (3.0.1-1 -> 3.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded openoffice-es (3.0.1-1 -> 3.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20090405-1 -> 20090509-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pango (1.24.1-1 -> 1.24.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pidgin (2.5.5-2 -> 2.5.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded tcp_wrappers (7.6-8 -> 7.6-9)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded portmap (6.0-2 -> 6.0-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded ppp (2.4.4-7 -> 2.4.4-8)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded procps (3.2.7-5 -> 3.2.8-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded psmisc (22.6-2 -> 22.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pycairo (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pygobject (2.16.1-1 -> 2.18.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-gdata (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-nose (0.10.4-3 -> 0.11.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-numpy (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded rsync (3.0.5-1 -> 3.0.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded seahorse (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded seahorse-plugins (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded sysfsutils (2.1.0-4 -> 2.1.0-5)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded syslinux (3.75-4 -> 3.80-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded sysvinit (2.86-4 -> 2.86-5)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded tomboy (0.14.1-1 -> 0.14.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded transmission-gtk (1.42-1 -> 1.60-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded unrar (3.9.1-1 -> 3.9.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded usbutils (0.81-1 -> 0.82-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded vlc (0.9.9a-1 -> 0.9.9a-4)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded wireless_tools (29-2 -> 29-3)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xfsprogs (3.0.0-1 -> 3.0.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xkeyboard-config (1.5-1 -> 1.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xorg-server-utils (7.4-5 -> 7.4-6)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xorg-server (1.6.1-1 -> 1.6.1.901-1)

Filesystem Check Failed - Mounted

After having a little trouble getting XFCE to start automatically like KDE did, I played around with some settings using a SLAX LiveCD. Since then, I'm unable to boot for a different reason: Filesystem Check Failed.
The only thing that seems to be the problem is that /dev/sdb1 is, as it says, "mounted". When I am prompted to fix it myself, I find that the system is confused as to whether it is mounted.
Typing "mount" produces
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/sto type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
Yet typing "umount /dev/sdb1" produces
umount: dev/sdb1: not found
umount /mnt/sto: not found
umount: dev/sdb1: not found
umount /mnt/sto: not found
cd to /mnt/sto and using dir or ls -a also shows me nothing.
The following is displayed upon "reboot"
shutdown: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
Finally, the files I remember having edited in SLAX and partially ARCH. I'm not sure how correct these are, but I didn't think trying to fix up XFCE was going to create such a problem:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinit.rc
#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# start some nice programs
#twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
exec startxfce4
/etc/inittab
# /etc/inittab
# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot
id:5:initdefault:xdm
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:respawn:/opt/xfce4/bin/startxfce4
# End of file
Please let me know if I'm missing any information. I'm currently running Windows, but luckily have full access to my root partition.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. /dev/sdb1 is no longer being shown in Windows OR SLAX. I predicted Windows, but can't think why it won't show up in SLAX.
Last edited by Newnux (2007-06-30 20:54:08)

Never mind, the fsck seemed to complete just fine .
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Storage has been mounted 29 times without being checked, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Storage: 23560/24903680 files (22.3% non-contiguous), 41462978/49785427 blocks
It didn't take that long, I just expected a progress bar, like with other drives.
Thanks anyway! Time to see if Arch boots without problems.

Filesystem check failed - Linux won't boot

I did a search on this forum, and this error ("Filesystem check failed") comes up a few times, but always after its user resized his partitions or did something to his fstab. Which is not my case.
For two days, I've been getting this error at boot. Just before getting the error, I can see that both my / and /home partitions are checked and raise no errors. However, when it gets to my /boot partition, I get the following message.
Filesystem mounted or used by another program ?
I have no clue as to what's happening. My current partitions, for the record, are
/boot /dev/sdb1 ext2
/ /dev/sdb2 ext3
/home /dev/sdb3 ext3
If you need any other info to help my solve my problem, just ask. Thanks !

4th attempt to restore successful!
Will attempt to verify disk and make second attempt to install Mavs.

How can I change filesystem check bahaviour in /etc/rc.sysinit?

Every time I boot my system, my filesystem is checked. Since it takes some time, I decided to change the /etc/rc.sysinit script so the filesystem check is performed every 100 boots (or once a month). I wanted to save the needed data ("boots counter" and the last filesystem check date) to a file placed in /var, but I got some error message saying that the / filesystem has been mounted read-only.
Where can I store such information?

actually, the last number in fstab controls that.
0 - no checks performed
1 - checked in first round (use for root)
2 - checked in second round (use for other partitions)
linux fstab manpage wrote:The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

[SOLVED] "Filesystem check failed" during boot process

I was using XFCE on my netbook recently and clicked "shutdown". It logged out to the command prompt and nothing happened. Assuming that I'd clicked "logout" by mistake, I typed "pacman -Syu" to run an update... And moments later it suddenly started the shutdown process.
Now, whenever I boot up, I see the message below. I tried booting from a GParted CD to check the filesystems for errors, but none were detected.
Can anyone suggest what I might need to do to fix the problem?
rootfs: clean, 11026/246512 files, 477083/984576 blocks
home: clean, 4386/527280 files, 237183/2105344 blocks
/dev/sdb2 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
************* FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED ************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw /
* when you exit the maintenance shell the system will
* reboot automatically.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
Last edited by esuhl (2012-03-27 01:20:07)

Thank you all for your replies :-)
hadrons123 wrote:What happens when you do try the suggestion given by it?
I don't exactly know how I should "repair manually"... I thought a filesystem check in GParted would have been enough...
lijpbasin wrote:You can boot the system using a archlinux live cd, and run fsck manually on every linux partition in the old system with options.
DON'T mount any of the filesystems before running fsck, or your data will probably be lost. If you want to check the partition information first, run fdisk -l with root privileges.
Thanks. I tried booting from an ArchBang live CD last night and ran "e2fsck -pcv" on each partition. The check completed, but the problem persists... I just tried again using "fsck" as you suggested and got the following output (but the machine still fails to boot with the same error as before):
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
usr was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
usr: 115811/458752 files (1.7% non-contiguous), 783161/1834496 blocks
Gcool wrote:
/dev/sdb2 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
As mentioned already, the reason it's failing is because the /dev/sdb2 partition is mounted before it can be fsck'd. What is this partition exactly (which filesystem, what's on it, mountpoint,...)?
I'm not overly familiar with the Linux boot process, but why would it suddenly be mounting this partition before fsck-ing it? Even if it was mounted when the netbook shutdown, surely the boot process starts with all partitions unmounted...? Anyway, the partition details from /etc/fstab are below.
<file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /home ext2 defaults,noatime,user_xattr 0 1
/dev/sdb2 /usr ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1
I'm (now) aware that mounting /usr as a separate partition is a bad idea and (having read the "Error when booting with the new initscripts" thread), I have told pacman to ignore updates to the initscripts package (until I figure out how best to work round or fix that issue).
Shark wrote:Write umount /dev/sdb2 in konsole or unmount partition in gparted by right click on problematic partition and click unmount. Than proced.
If I type "umount /dev/sdb2" at the prompt, I get the following error:
umount: /usr: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
I tried "umount -l /dev/sdb2" to unmount when the device becomes free... but it never does.
I also booted into GParted, but there is no option to "unmount" /dev/sdb2. There is a "mount" option in the menu, but it is greyed out. If I open a terminal window from the GParted Live environment and type "sudo umount /dev/sdb2" I get the following message:
umount: /dev/sdb2: not mounted
DSpider wrote:Are you mounting the root drive with "ro" (read only) in fstab?
No (as shown above). I don't *think* I've messed anything up with fstab or any other config files -- everything was working perfectly till the netbook shutdown whilst pacman was running.

Filesystem check failing; can't enter maintenance shell. [SOLVED]

Originally, arch wouldn't let me log in, complaining of an incorrect shell entry. (This is a recently re-setup system of mine, so I only have a root account.)
So I booted into the LiveCD, mounted my root partition, and editted /etc/passwd so that it pointed to the correct zsh path. But I rebooted without thinking, and without unmount. DOH!
Now Im getting the "FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED: Please repair manually and reboot" error on boot, constantly. I've gone into the Live environemt again, and fsck the partition - didn't help.
Ideas? I've seen a recent topic similar to this one, but couldn't find help in it.
Last edited by pritchard92 (2009-09-28 21:49:34)

Thank you for the reply.
However, after many more reboots, it finally checked the disk, and is now working.
Thanks.

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