file system with errors

[Steve Buehler]

How can I hash out the line if I can't boot past the error?  After 
several reboots (and after my original email), I was finally able to 
have it ask me for a password or to hit Control-D to 
continue.  Problem is that once this comes up, my keyboard is locked 
up and I can't type anything.  During the bootup I can pick the 
kernel and so on.

Steve

At 08:46 AM 2/7/2007, John O'Loughlin wrote:

>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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