On 27 Jan 02, at 23:42, Paul Copeland wrote about: [SLUG] Unclean Unmounting > > I am a little confused at present. Lately everytime I boot into Linux (SuSE > 7.3 Personal), nearly all the time now, my boot messages tell me that hdb3 > (the / partition) was not unmounted cleanly, so it scans the disk. > > Now when it shuts down, it tells me that is unmounting all the disks and hdb3 > is supposedly unmounted. But the next time I boot in it tells me it is not > cleanly unmounted. [snip]
WARNING: This remedy can f*ck your hdd (but it has worked for me). *** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK *** *** NO responsibility is accepted etc... *** BEFORE you begin: man fsck man e2fsck then: 1. Force a manual fsck: fsck -f /dev/hdb3 (take the default answer to every question!) 2. Repeat 1. above. If no errors are reported, you have fixed it (cheers - STOP HERE). 3. If 2. fails with the same or further errors: fsck -fc /dev/hdb3 (take the default answer to every question!) 4. Repeat 1. above. If no errors are reported, you have fixed it (cheers). If otherwise, the hdd is severely f*cked, throw it out and start again. Good luck, Russell ------------------- Post HTML at your own risk ------------------- Not everyone uses mail readers that can easily display HTML messages. Consequently, you will reach a larger audience if you post your messages in plain-text. Many people simply ignore HTML messages, because it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to read them. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
