file system with errors
John O'Loughlin
j.oloughlin at qmul.ac.uk
Wed Feb 7 15:13:00 UTC 2007
If you have the rhel cds then put the first one in, reboot, and at the
prompt type:
linux rescue
eventually you will get to a shell where you:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
and then vi /etc/fstab
John
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Buehler wrote:
> 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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