CentOS 5 Hardware :: Fsck Fails On Ext3 Filesystems?

Sep 15, 2010

I am attempting to run a fsck on a number of large ext3 filesystems. I am doing this proactively because I want to minimize reboot time and the filesystems are past the interval time of 6 months. When I run the command " fsck -f -y device" I get the following error on all of the filesystems-

fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/mapper/mpath0p1

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Jul 23, 2010

I am hosting a few customer servers now, all of which are virtual machines running on a CENTOS 5.x host. Each Centos host has a couple of extra drives. When I formatted them ext3 they automatically had a schedule of a full forced fsck after 6 months. Do I really need to do that check regularly? It results in a fairly large outage since my disks are each 1TB and there are up to three extra drives on each server. I try to reboot these servers every 6 months but this part adds a large amount of time to a routine reboot.

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Code:
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I've run force fsck in these ways:

shutdown -rF now

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touch /forcefsck

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Upon booting my LVM wheezy setup, I get

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I believe this is caused by me trying to get lvm to use the external /boot because when I had unmounted the external /boot, it was creating a /boot in root. So, I booted a live cd and mounted the external /boot where /boot in the root volume is supposed to be. Basically, I think the problem is that I need to make my /boot (which is the only ext3 partition in the entire system and I want it that way) "relate itself" to the lvm root so that it boots into the system. As mentioned earlier, in the live CD, I made the external /boot mount itself in the root's /boot but I don't know how to tell the system to do this on its own while booting without my assistance. I chrooted from the live cd which involved a lot of tedious stuff but basically the important stuff I did were:

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I would like to do :

Code:

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*** When you leave the shell.

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After upgrading from opensuse 11.1 to 11.2 I get the following error messages while booting the system caused by the initial filesystem check routines:

ERROR: Couldn't open /dev/null (Too many open files)
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I found a new version of the e2fsprogs at the OBS package claiming to fix this problem. But installing this new version did not solve my problem.

Here some information about the affected system:
Operating System:openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
Installed e2fsprogs:e2fsprogs-1.41.11-4.1.i586
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