Problem with forcefsck

[piequi]

Dear,

It appears that my hard drive is nearly dying, i encountered several I/O errors with different files for a couple of weeks now. I decided to run at boot time a complete fsck in order to fix what's fixable, waiting for a new HD.

To do so I run "shutdown -rF now" which, as expected, run a full fsck when rebooting.
The command found 3 unconsistencies and asked to run a fsck manually. I did that and fsck fixed them (as it says).
After the errors had been fixed, the system has rebooted and tried to run again fsck; here comes the infinite loop: an error remains on my root partition which cannot be fixed by fsck...

So now I'm stuck with the forced fsck at boot (because of the presence of the /forcefsck file) which never ends successfully.

To fix that, I tried to rerun the shutdown command with the -f parameter but I get "shutdown: /dev/initctl: no such file or directory".
Futhermore, as the filesystem is read-only I cannot manually remove the /forcefsck file...

The pity is that before, I couldn't use some programs because I/O errors but at least I could partionally use my system; now it's completely unusable.

Does someone know how to get off this situation or any idea to get rid of that forced fsck?


Thanks a lot

Marc-Antoine

[padoor]

try booting with livecd and remove the file
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[piequi]

Thanks for the hint!

I actually used the gentoo LiveCD to boot up and then mounted /dev/hda3 in /mnt/gentoo
I could do a "rm /mnt/gentoo/forcefsck" and reboot the system just fine

Thanks a lot for your help