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Why does e2fsck fail during boot, but not later?
When booting my Debian server, I'm presented with the following error concerning my external hard drive:
/dev/disk/by-label/elements:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ...
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How does the Unix “fsck” differ from the Windows “chkdsk”?
What are the differences between Unix's fsck and Windows' chkdsk?
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Did `sudo init 6` cause my file system to be corrupted?
I was developing some code and had open qtcreator (software development IDE), gnome-terminal, and possibly firefox. I needed to restart to test something. So i restarted using sudo init 6. When my ...
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How can I fix linux disk without unmount it?
I had large file 200GB in my ext2 disk, then I deleted it(three are no files in Trash). And I haven't gained any free space. I don't want to use fsck as it requres me to unmount disk. I were windows ...
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How to test file system correction done by fsck
How to make sure that fsck is correcting corruptions while keeping the integrity of file system?
Suppose clients are writing lots of files through NFS to server, and there happens something that ...
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How to repair an ext3 partition after broken resize operation?
I was using gparted to resize a near-terabyte ext3 partition, adding about 40 GB to the left. After nearly 12 hours of moving data (and with 23 more hours estimated to remain) the system hung. Now ...
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e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on LogicalVolume
When I boot my machine either in normal mode or runlevel 1 it throws following error and I'm unable to boot the machine:
checking filesystems
/dev/MyGroup/LogVol00: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN ...
