file system with errors
John O'Loughlin
j.oloughlin at qmul.ac.uk
Wed Feb 7 14:46:15 UTC 2007
hash out the line in /etc/fstab that is mounting that partition on
/var/spool/mail
then you can log and in and fsck -p it
John
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Buehler wrote:
> RedHat 4.x system.
> I am trying to boot a linux system that has 4 HD's. 3 of them are on in a
> raid 5 configuration and the other one is the boot drive with the OS on it.
> When I boot the system, I get the message
> /var/spool/mail contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> The file system in question is the raid and is 500GB in size. I let it run
> for several days at boot up but it never came out of the file system check
> and the hard drive lights stop blinking after only about an hour, give or
> take. How can I tell it at boot time to NOT do a file system check like this
> so that I can get into the system and either run it manually or format the
> partition again.
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
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