Questions tagged [fsck]
fsck - check and optionally repair a file system.
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Probably a failing HDD but want to be sure [on hold]
I'm having to manually fsck almost every boot, and am unable to update or install new programs due to a specific error in the process. Don't recall what offhand but can boot and find out. Anyway, I ...
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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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Does fsck.f2fs not support loopback image files?
I had a micro SD card that I had "adopted" so the Android phone I had could use the storage as apart of the total storage for applications and data. This worked for sometime till the micro SD failed. ...
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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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Right way to fsck the root filesystem on an appliance?
Before going ahead, I'd like to make sure I understand how to perform a file check on the root filesystem that's installed on a USB keydrive on a Sheevaplug appliance running Debian 9.
I was thinking ...
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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
but ...
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fsck not performed during boot in spite fstab configured correctly
today we notice about very strange issue
the following partition ( from /etc/fstab) defined with "2" in the end of the line
that means that fsck will be activate during boot
since the data on that ...
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what is the best approach to fix file-system corruption on huge data
we need to fix filesystem corruption on sdb on redhat 6 version
sdb is xfs file system
df -h | egrep "Filesystem|/data"
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 8.2T 7.0T ...
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How to Force fsck for all other non-root partitions
We have the following disks and there mount point:
/dev/sdb /appTdb/sdc ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sdc /appTdb/sdd ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sdd /appTdb/sde ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/...
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Is it possible to run fsck to only see errors on mounted disk
We have RedHat 7.2 OS.
/dev/sdc is mounted to /bla/appLO
Is it possible to run fsck on mounted disks (without umount /bla/appLO)
and to see only the errors if they exist?
Example:
e2fsck -n /dev/...
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When can Linux boot with a Read-Only Root Filesystem
I am working on a embedded Linux with u-boot as bootloader and systemd init system. The tools are limited to standard busybox.
While analyzing some problems, I figured out the root filesystem is read ...
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Usability is compromised on Ubuntu because of read-only filesystem error
Over the past couple of days Ubuntu has been progressively locking me out of the the system. I can't open some programs and the last straw was a few minutes ago when it refused to save a screenshot. ...
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Do systemd-fsck or fsck generate a status report?
How does one determine whether fsck operations were performed at bootup. I understand the default fsck config and behaviour, but is there a report or status that shows whether any fsck issues were ...
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After moving root partition in Linux Lite (Lubuntu), do I need to run fsck?
I finally migrated from Windows to Linux, and I chose Linux Lite (based on Lubuntu) as my first attempt, through dual-booting my PC. I loved using Linux, so I decided to steal most of the space of my ...
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Fsck on partition inside RAID broke file system AND RAID
What was: RAID 1 with mdadm on whole disks say /dev/md0 from /dev/sda and sdb, GPT with one partition on md0 and ext4 on this partition (md0p1).
What I think happens: after changing motherboard linux ...
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Can't mount portable HDD - Cannot run commands on its partitions either
My Imation Apollo M100 portable disk is not mounting.
One day I was copying a heavy file to it, the process got stuck and I unplugged it from the computer. When I connected it back to the PC and when ...
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How to pass parameter to fsck at boot time
I want to make fsck to run by default with -y at boot time to try to force automatic repair. Any idea how this can be done under Arch Linux?
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Fsck at boot time for loopback device
I discovered that is not possible to run fsck on a loopback device at boot by the fsck flag inside the fstab file, nor is it possible to accomplish this by manually running fsck when the loop device ...
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Fixing btrfs file extent holes
So, due to what I assume to be a loose ATX connector my system powered down unexpectedly. Which is bad. When I run btrfs check I find a mile long list of extent holes. Fortunately they are limited to ...
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How do I run a fsck on an encrypted LVM partition?
I'm on Fedora 27 and I'm trying to fsck a SSD but the usual things like /forcefsck aren't working.
Also tried to set up my /etc/default/grub like so
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks....
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Ubuntu locked up and strange UI changes, serious problem? [closed]
My Ubuntu 16.04 system just locked up out of the blue, I had to hard-reset the machine.
Now that's booted back up, the Unity menubar has turned transparent, and the light shading around each icon on ...
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When fsck the `/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_web`, there comes error status: { DRDY ERR } error: { UNC }
When I fsck the /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_web, there comes a issue:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_web contains a file system with errors, check forced.
exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x8
You ...
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is it safe to run e2fsck -y /dev/sdXX on hdfs files
we see the system log on one of the worker machine ( dmesg )
and from the log we saw that:
(sdc): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
disk - sdc include the HDFS folder -...
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Unable to mount decrypted image
I have an encrypted image (ext4) that can be mounted perfectly on my Raspberry Pi but not on my (L)Ubuntu VM. The following commands work perfectly on the Pi:
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen stuff.iso img
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e2fsck -n + how to know if need to run e2fsck in order to fix corrupted blocks?
we want to check the filesystem on the disks as /deb/sdc .... /dev/sdg on each linux redhat machine
the target is to find what are the disks that required e2fsck ( as e2fsck -y /dev/sdb . etc )
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What should I do to force the root filesystem check (and optionally a fix) at boot?
Yesterday, one of our computers dropped to grub shell or honestly, I am unsure what shell it was when we turned on the machine.
It showed that it can't mount the root filesystem or something in this ...
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Is there any way to perform fsck automatically after power failure?
I have a USB HDD with an ext3 file system, (it's a Plex server media drive), connected to my Raspberry Pi, and after power failure it is not mounting automatically and has a superblock reading problem....
