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kingcoras
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 Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:59 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] what fs type am I using? and how can I run a scan? |
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Okay, I admit, I must have screwed something up when doing the install, because I've got conflicting information, and the initial boot up is saying it can't run an fsck because the magic number is bad... and what's worse, it's my / partition, so it isn't like I can just umount it and check it.
so here is my conundrum...
contents of /etc/fstab
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# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda3 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda7 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
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contents of /etc/mtab
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rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1008218,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda7 / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
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output of mount command (is this the same as mtab? and is there another synonym for it I'm missing?)
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rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1008218,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda5 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid)
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so which one is right, and how can I get the system to do a proper fsck?
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<bocz> i think ill be stuck to getting 2 sticks of 128
<bocz> thats 310 mb for a server
<Guilty> Kudos on finding the elusive 54MB DIMM
gentoo boot time: 25 seconds, Windows boot time: 1:30. Why, Bill, why?
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TomWij
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: what fs type am I using?? and how can I run a scan?? |
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| kingcoras wrote: | | magic number is bad |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record
Sounds like you have corruption or tampered with the boot; you'll need to fix the EBR before you can proceed, assuming nothing else has been corrupted or tampered with. |
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wjb
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What did you format root (/dev/sda7) as? It kind of looks like you formatted as reiser but are telling the system (via fstab) that its ext4? |
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kingcoras
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:48 am Post subject: |
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I really hope it isn't the EBR... if it is, my entire linux install would go down the toilet if it suddenly failed, or if I screwed up the fix.
On the other hand, we have my horrible memory... I MEANT to format it ext4, but maybe I did format as reiserfs and put ext4 in fstab. If that's the case, and I flip the fs type in fstab, would that fix my problem?
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<bocz> i think ill be stuck to getting 2 sticks of 128
<bocz> thats 310 mb for a server
<Guilty> Kudos on finding the elusive 54MB DIMM
gentoo boot time: 25 seconds, Windows boot time: 1:30. Why, Bill, why? |
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kingcoras
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:40 am Post subject: |
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okay, when I changed the fs type in fstab, if was fine. I can't believe I did that.
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<bocz> i think ill be stuck to getting 2 sticks of 128
<bocz> thats 310 mb for a server
<Guilty> Kudos on finding the elusive 54MB DIMM
gentoo boot time: 25 seconds, Windows boot time: 1:30. Why, Bill, why? |
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TomWij
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| Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:09 am Post subject: |
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No idea if there is a check for the padding magic number in the EBR, it might just boot fine if those numbers were wrong; but well, apparently it wasn't that magic number. Good that you figured it out.  |
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