Questions tagged [fsck]
fsck - check and optionally repair a file system.
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fdisk says the partition I'm trying to recover is “unknown” type. Is there anyway to mount this?
I have a corrupt HFS partition that I'm trying to recover data from.
>>sudo fdisk -l
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI ...
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Can't mount encrypted disk from old cryptsetup
I've got a very old USB disk, on which there's a very old encrypted partition.
It mounts as /dev/sdb1
On a newish box (with cryptsetup 1.7.3), I can attach to it with:
cryptsetup -c aes-plain -s ...
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Linux fsck while boot
If the file systems are meant to do fsck while booting, why is Linux not able to do fsck sometimes, and going into maintenance mode?
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Best practice run a filesystem check on lvm volume?
Have many systems with ext4 directly on the block device and others on lvm. I routinely create new systems with ext4 directly on the block device and use tune2fs to have automatic filesystem checks. ...
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*** /dev/sda1 will be checked for errors at next reboot *** but it never is; remedy?
System: Linux Mint 19 "Tara" - Cinnamon (64-bit), based on Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 5.3.0-24-generic
Problem duration: 1 month.
Problem description: since this computer malfunctioned before my ...
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My computer says “/dev/sda2 contains a file system with error, check forced”
I have followed the instructions below but with no positive results in return:
fsck /dev/sda2
Fixed and blocked all the corrections done by running
Reboot
I can't run any application on my desktop (...
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tune2fs -l /dev/nvme0n1p1, Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock
I'm following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend to debug a kernel suspend bug. There's a section which asks me to get the current fsck settings for a partition. I think my partition is /...
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Recover files listed by fsck, but nothing in drive
I am trying to determing the contents of an EBS volume, as it may have been important data that was accidentally deleted. To check if anything is there, I ran file -s /dev/xvdf and get
/dev/xvdf: ...
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fsck exited with status code 4 - causes?
I restarted my computer (normally, through menu) on Linux Mint recently. Upon restart, the Mint splash screen showed (past the UEFI/BIOS settings menu), but then it only got a terminal with input ...
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How can I see if this fsck operation corrected any filesystem errors?
After doing a fsck on a filesystem, someone asked me if the fsck resolved any problems. I'm not sure how to interprete the following results. Do you see anything important to notice ?
root@server1>...
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How to check for file system consistency after power outage [duplicate]
What can I do to check if a file system (data in files and the hardware) is intact or corrupt after a computer is shutdown abruptly due to power outage?
My home desktop computer was shut down by ...
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Is there a way to automatically restore system files from lost+found
I am running Debian Buster, and out of nowhere the file system of the root partition got corrupted. I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary, just surfing the net basically, and at some point i ...
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All superblocks corrupt, mismatched start sector on extended and logical partitions
While running Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon normally, the drive went into lockdown mode preventing disk writes indicating possible corruption. Upon shutdown and reboot I was met with ACPI errors.
Following ...
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File system errors. Is my hard disk failing? Or this error is because of me?
My machine is Dell 7559 i5 with a GTX960m graphics card.
I have a problem when I install GNU/Linux (any distribution) on my machine, after some days it crashes and has file system errors.
I ...
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Stuck in tty after fsck error on boot
I have Ubuntu 16.04 running on my laptop.
After starting the laptop, I got /dev/sda8: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
According to this link I am fixing the error with fsck -f /dev/sda8 ...
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fsck exit status “System should be rebooted”
The fsck(8) manpage on Linux includes the following table of exit codes:
The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following conditions:
0 No errors
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Run fsck in the background on boot
Running openSUSE 15.1 with systemd, when it determined the need, the boot processes will invoke fsck on a particular disk. By default, this check will run in the foreground, blocking the completion of ...
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Kensington SD I/O Read Error, not recognised on Ubuntu 19.04?
I have two Kensington SD cards that will not be recognised on my ubuntu 19.04 OS. They are definitely working though, when I plug them into my windows 10 computer they register.
I also have an old ...
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Cannot chroot due to “Input/output error” - file and disk seem OK
I am trying to repair a non-booted Arch installation after a computer crash during an update (worst of times). However, chroot fails.
Tried this:
# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/arch
# cd /mnt/arch
# mount -...
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Root FS goes into ReadOnly Mode in 2 days after clean Reboot
I have a Suse OS machine. The root FS goes into RO mode by itself. After a clean reboot it is back in RW mode but does not stay there. After 2 days it goes back to RO mode. I performed FSCK on ...
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Fsck ask for repairs during boot
At Raspbian, there is a /boot/cmdline.txt file where the option fsck.repair can be defined.
As far as I know, the valid values are:
yes (always repair)
no (never repair)
preen (default; repair if it ...
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fsck in recovery mode does not work
When I run fsck in recovery mode, it says that sda3 is mounted.
/dev/sda3 is mounted
e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting.
However, when I try to umount sda3, it is busy.
umount: /: target is ...
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How to clean and reboot HDDs pulled from LVM groups (showing bad super blocks)?
I have 2x 4TB HDDs that were put in an LVM group last year, ended up not really using this server due to huge issues around installing nextcloud. At some point it started giving me boot problems so I ...
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Why swap space doesn't get filesystem check at boot time?
As I was checking the /etc/fstab I noticed that the swap space has attr pass=0, which means its filesystem is not checked at boot time.
Can anyone please tell me why is this behavior for?
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Repair possible file system corruption in virtual Linux guest OS (Virtualbox)
Background
My power went out during some rain recently while I was away from home. When I got back the power was still out and when it came back on, my system seems to have suffered some issues.
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If e2fsck says output from a mounted file system isnt to be trusted, then how does systemd generate log messages from fs errors?
man e2fsck says;
Note that in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted filesystems. The only exception is if the -n option is specified, and -c, -l,
or -L options are not ...
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If a directory is put in lost+found after running fsck, will it contain all of the original contents?
Let's say I have the following directory structure, in an ext4 filesystem:
a/b/{1..9}
(in other words, a/b/1, a/b/2, ... a/b/9)
Suppose I am writing to a/b, and then I lose power. fsck runs and ...
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Recover file list from NTFS formatted (MBR) failing hard drive
My Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 2TB USB hard disk is not detected on Windows(explorer, disk management, safety remove dialog all crashes when I plug in) but on fedora, it takes 2 minutes to ...
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short way to perform efsck when we have huge number of disks
we need to do e2fsck on all our disks ( redhat linux - 7.2 ). Since on each machines we have 22 disks ( ext4 file-system ) it will take time to do it on each disk as all know when doing e2fsck need ...
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Bad magic number in super-block: dm-crypt device
I have a device that is encrypted using dm-crypt. This is a mini SD card that I use on my laptop.
I've had some issues with my laptop freezing recently, and in the journal these messages come up:
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Should I answer yes to “Clone multiply-claimed blocks<y>?” when running e2fsck?
When running e2fsck -cck /dev/mapper/xxx I am prompted with
has 487 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 84 file(s):
... (inode #221446306, mod time Tue Feb 20 19:48:38 2018)
... (...
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How can I make `fsck` actually check the healthiness of my disk, partitions, filesystems, and LVs?
I want to check the healthiness of my disk, partitions, filesystems, and LVs. So I run fsck. I heard to use fsck on a filesystem, I need to boot into a live Lubuntu from a bootable flash drive and ...
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is it possible to `fsck` for badblocks a single LVM logical volume SEGMENT?
why? to resume fsck -fcck while looking for badblocks as it takes humongous time (1TB SATA HD) and I have no no-break on my desktop, so, I could split the logical volume in several segments of 10GB ...
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Long boot time of Debian Stretch
My Debian Stretch system takes nearly a minute to boot up. It usually takes about 15 seconds.
My error:
Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device
fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while ...
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Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home
When I mount my /dev/VolGroup/lv_home there get error:
[root@localhost VolGroup]# mount /dev/VolGroup/lv_home /home/
Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home,
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How to show journal messages from all `fsck` units
Is there a reasonable procedure for a system administrator to view all the fsck messages?
On my current Fedora 29 system, I can view all the fsck messages from my current boot like this:
sudo ...
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Fsck on encrypted home folder, do I need to decrypt first?
I would like to run btrfs check on /dev/sda3 partition that have encrypted home folder. If I decrypt folder that partition became mounted. The check requires it be unmounted, thus encrypted. Is it ...
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Reboot with faulty drive, devices names change, server does not boot
I have had this problem on 2 servers and I want to know how should I handle the problem. My server has an SSD (/dev/sda) and two SATA drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc).
The second drive (/dev/sdb) has ...
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systemd-fsck failed with error code 8. Unable to repair disk on bootup
I have two partitions, one for the RO root filesystem (mmcblk3p1), and the other is the RW home partition (mmcblk3p2). I can't figure out why systemd-fsck is unable to fix my partition when I manually ...
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Can't mount second hdd due to error /dev/mapper/backup--mint--vg-root: can't read superblock
I'm trying to mount a second hdd. I don't know where I'm going wrong. First, I set up a partition with cryptsetup:
sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb5 backup
sudo vgdisplay
I got two identical vg names, ...
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Ubuntu recovery says “fsck from util-linux” and exits
I booted Ubuntu in recovery mode to try and fix a disk error.
However, when I run:
fsck
I just get:
fsck from util-linux 2.31.1
And nothing else happens.
Any fsck command is simply printing '...
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btrfs check /dev/loop0 -> ERROR: cannot open file system
I have a file formatted as a btrfs filesystem. I can loop mount it and use it normally. I'd like to run btrfs check on this file, but an error is generated.
First I tried with just the file:
$ ...
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“No space left on device” despite 70GB free; can't create any files larger than 8.0MiB on iPad [closed]
OK so this is on an iPad Pro but I'm asking you guys because this is about the underlying Unix system behind iOS/OS X, not really iPad specific. (And yes I spent hours reading all relevant ...
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What would happen if you zeroed out a certain group of blocks in the EXT4 filesystem?
Basically, the EXT4 filesystem has chunks of data in size of 128MiB (by default), and this chunk is called a "group" or "group of blocks", which basically looks like this on the disk:
The bigger the ...
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Where is fsck run?
I was reading through all the things that are run during bootup and have seen that after mounting the rootfs, /sbin/fsck.ext4 is run and after that systemd is run. I was wondering where or how fsck is ...
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disk in use in-spite we perform umount and lsof is empty
we want to perform fsck -f on /dev/sdc but without success
umount -l /var/hadoop/zookeper
lsof /var/hadoop/zookeeper/
fsck -f /dev/sdc
fsck from util-linux 2.23.2
e2fsck 1.42.9 ...
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Unmounting Linux [duplicate]
I have a problem with hashcat in Kali Linux and someone on the Internet suggested to do fsck. I check and it says to unmount the device before using the fsck command. I am using Kali Linux in dual ...
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Understanding USB message logs to troubleshoot USB automounting
I am trying to troubleshoot an issue where on one server my USB automounts whereas on another server it isn't. Comparing the logs for both instances, I am trying to understand what each line means.
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Does “recovering journal” prove an unclean shutdown/unmount?
Can we confirm the log message "recovering journal" from fsck should be interpreted as indicating the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted / shut down the last time? Or, are there other possible ...
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how to perform xfs_repair on disk that is actually UUID
we have redhat machines version 6.x
we want to fix the file-system on one of our disks
UUID=198s5364-a29c-429e-b16d-e772acd /data_SA xfs rw,noatime,inode64,allocsize=16m 1 2
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