Very Computer

Hi,

     Recently, the power went off and I had to fix my ext2fs with
fsck.  My problem is that even though it seems like I've fixed my
fs, I still get the following warning on boot-up:

     EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck recommeded.

     I've gone single user and run "fsck /dev/hda4" and
"fsck -A -av /dev/hda4", but I still get the warning.

     Help....
     - Chris

:
:      EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck recommeded.
:
:      I've gone single user and run "fsck /dev/hda4" and
: "fsck -A -av /dev/hda4", but I still get the warning.

If you shutdown using the -f switch, it creates a file /fastboot,
which suppresses the otherwise normal fscking on bootup. At least
it does on debian. Do it without the -f, and fscking should happen
normally. Assuming this was the problem, anyway... :)

Eric Buddington

: :
: :      EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck recommeded.
: :

: If you shutdown using the -f switch, it creates a file /fastboot,
: which suppresses the otherwise normal fscking on bootup. At least
: it does on debian. Do it without the -f, and fscking should happen
: normally. Assuming this was the problem, anyway... :)

     Not quite.  The above message is actually a kernel message,
(i.e. I can find it using grep in /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/super.c)
and I'm wondering how to fix it so I don't get that warning
anymore.

     Perhaps it is my fsck version... I think I'm using the 0.5 ALPHA
version of fsck.ext2.

     Thanks for the reply

: >      EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck recommeded.
: >
: >      I've gone single user and run "fsck /dev/hda4" and
: > "fsck -A -av /dev/hda4", but I still get the warning.

: Chris, Maybe you're using e2fsck on a mounted file system.  I've found
: that using my original system install boot disk - the one we used
: rawwrite.exe to create - and a rescue.gz disk, found , on my slackware
: cdrom,  under rootdsks, I boot:ramdisk, insert the rescue.gz disk when
: prompted, then login. I am then able to use the e2fsck utility to run
: e2fsck -y on all of my unmounted partitions.

     The problem ended up being that my root fs was mounted
read/write.  When I shutdown to single user mode, and remounted
root with "mount -n -o remount,ro /" and *then* ran e2fsck,
the warning went away.  Your method is probably the safest, though.

     Thanks,
     - Chris