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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:17:10
Message-Id: E177C25A-AA19-4342-9377-773D23915CAB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :(" by Willie Wong
1 Many thanks for your help, Willie!
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4 On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:18, Willie Wong wrote:
5 > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
6 >>> from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you
7 >>> edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of
8 >>> LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok?
9 >>
10 >> Many thanks for this suggestion, however following it makes no
11 >> difference, except in the trivia that it says "failed to open the
12 >> device '/dev/hda3': No such file or directory" (instead of
13 >> "LABEL=...").
14 >
15 > If you try to boot, after the failure to check rootfs, it should dump
16 > you to a recovery console, what happens if you issue ls /dev ?
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18 About 13 items. Is this unlucky?
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20 http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png
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22 > Also check dmesg?
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24 I don't think this gives any clues:
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26 http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dmesg.png
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28 Stroller.

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