ext3fs problem, 2nd call for help

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:53 pm, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> ok, linux experts. I got a question.
>
> when my linux shutdown abnormally (owning to sudden loss of electricity
> in my apartment), the linux would always produce a login prompt on the
> first boot-up after the power failure. I had to key in the root
> password, run `fsck`, `poweroff -n`, and CTRL-ALT-DEL.
>
> However, when the ext3 partitions were mounted, it would say soemting
> like "error would be corrected on next remount".
>
> What's happening? What should I do to avoid that problem?

Boot into single user mode, mount the ext3 partition as ro and run fsck.ext3 
across it... then reboot as normal.


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