'Some Contents Unreadable" error still exists after checking HDD

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Feb 22 03:12:30 UTC 2005


Rajev Mhasawade wrote:
> Hi,
> I did use shutdown now -Fr command and it checked filesystem after
> reboot without detecting any errors and stating all drives are
> 'non-contagious'.Yet when i try to find out space used by each
> drive(via right click),information displayed there does not match with
> that of df -h.And the error (some contents cannot be read) is still
> there.
> What does this mean,is my HDD problematic?What should i do?Plz help!
> Thanks in advance.
> Rajev
> 

This could be an SELinux labeling problem. Try running
touch /.autorelabel
and then reboot your computer. This will relabel your filesystem and 
might resolve the issue related to some contents not being read correctly.
When your computer reboots, it will go into relabeling and inform you 
that it might take awhile to complete.

If that does not resolve the issue, the disk may be defective, like 
previously suggested. The filesystem might be corrupted and might need 
reformatted and the information reinstalled to it.

I could not completely follow the thread content. But if you are trying 
to mount a partition created in FC3 in an installation that came out 
before FC3, it would drop you to a shell because of a difference in 
pre-FC3 formatted disks and FC3 formatted disks and later. Your options 
would be  to edit /etc/fstab and to change the last two entries to 0 0
This will bypass the check and allow you to use the partitions in 
pre-FC3 installations.

Jim

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