Re: [Lug-nuts] fsck: Unexpected Inconsistency

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: 10 Jan 2005 17:44:44 GMT

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:17:16 GMT, Wayne Watson staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> We had a power outage a few days ago, and my linux machine went down.
> When I try to boot up, it tries to repair things with fsck. It fails
> with an "unexpected inconsistency: run fsck manually w/o -a or -p
> options". How should I run it?

Run fsck on the affected partition, without using the -a or -p options.
Use -y if you feel confident that you're going to answer "Y" to every
question fsck asks. (Most people will do this unless they're Filesystem
Gurus.)

> I'm using RHL9.

Redhat 9.0 has been EOLed. Time to upgrade to something that isn't
EOLed, eh? It's also time for you to start using journalled
filesystems like ext3 or ReiserFS, so the next time you have a power
failure, fsck won't be necessary. It's easy to convert an ext2
filesystem to ext3; just umount the partition and do "tune2fs -j" on it.
Make sure you have ext3 filesystem support built into your kernel if you
have / on ext3! 

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