[sf-lug] Hayes Valley Mystery

[Tom Haddon]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 00:30 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Tom Haddon wrote:
> 
> >> e2fsck -f "force[s] checking even if the file system seems clean", at
> >> least (says its man page).
> >
> > Yeah, gives the same output:
> >
> > e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> > 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
> > /dev/sda1: 39/26104 files (28.2% non-contiguous), 62530/104388 blocks
> 
> Huh, okay.
> 
> > It did this before without the -f option. And I'm able to mount it fine
> > once the system's booted, which we were before as well. The real test
> > is, can we uncomment the entry in /etc/fstab and have it mounted on
> > boot? Will have to wait til one of of is onsite and able to deal with
> > any issues that come up if it doesn't boot correctly before we can check
> > this...
> 
> Well, there should be no problem with asking Linux to mount it.  There's 
> nothing crucial that stops working if Linux fails to.  So if you feel 
> comfy doing a remote reboot, then you could do that.
> 
> If not, then sure - wait until you (or we!) are local!

Yeah, might just do that. Not sure I feel brave enough to do a remote
reboot, as I know it dropped into some kind of recovery mode last time
we tried to boot with that drive mounted, and I'm not sure if networking
is all working in that state...

Cheers, Tom

> 
> -- Asheesh.
>