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Title: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: ross maugham on March 27, 2002, 11:06:45 AM

Hi

The cleaners just knocked the power switch for my e-smith server, now when it boots I get the following message

Inode 191617 has imagic flag set
/: Unexpected Inconsistency; Run fsck manually
                       (ie without -a or -p options)

*** An error occured during file system check
***Dropping you to a shell; the sytem will reboot when you leave the shell

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup)


Giving the root password takes me to

(repair filesystem)1#

However I have no idea on what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.

Please post here as the e-smith server is my mail server so I'm not receiving any mail

Thanks
Ross

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Lloyd Keen on March 27, 2002, 12:32:23 PM

try at the prompt
# fsck /dev/hda5

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Ross on March 27, 2002, 12:57:40 PM

Lloyd

thanks for the help, unfortunaly I get the following error message

fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hda5

Thanks
Ross

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Jay on March 27, 2002, 01:15:01 PM

Shouldn't that be

fsck /dev/hda1

?

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Jay on March 27, 2002, 01:15:39 PM

DOH...stuck in windoze mode again...

fsck \dev\hda1

:)

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Jay on March 27, 2002, 01:16:44 PM

...I was right the fist time LOL ...I need a holiday ;)

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Ross on March 27, 2002, 01:43:31 PM

Thanks for the help, however I bit the bullet and have redone the server, hopefully not losing too much e-mail

Thanks
Ross

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: blah blah on May 03, 2002, 12:18:39 AM

It's: "fsck /"

Then answer yes to all the questions.

Then type "reboot" to reboot the server.

Title: Re: Server crash Urgent linux help needed
Post by: Duane Rinehart on May 17, 2002, 07:27:19 PM

The last time I answered "yes" to all the questions it deleted links between the server-manager and files so no users or ibays showed up in the server manager.  I don't know if the ext3 file system will eventually resolve this problem or if there is a better way.  I've already lost one server...

Duane