Ubuntu :: Dosfsck Refuses To Fix Drive /dev/sda2?
Jan 8, 2011
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS -Partition dev/sda2 is formatted as FAT32 and mounted as /d. Boot found a problem with it; the original and backup copies of the boot sector don't match.dosfsck refuses to fix it. I use 'dos fsck /dev/sda2" and it offers to copy one to the other, but whatever I pick it refuses to write to the drive. I use "dosfsck -a /dev/sda2" and again it refuses to write to the drive. How can I fix this Must I reformat the partition?
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Mar 26, 2011
I just successfully installed ubuntu 10.10 Meerkat Maverik parallel to manufacturer installed Windows 7 Professional on a newly bought ThinkPad t410. All works find just that on the boot screen instead of 1 Windows partition (usually something like "Windows 7 loader on sda1") I find two Windows partitions. Now, I know that Thinkpads have a recovery partition. Funny is though that both "Windows 7 loader on sda1/2" login to what seems the identical Windows (not one of them the "normal" and the other some form of a recovery).
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Oct 4, 2010
I am working on device with low memory:
# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 95428 kB
MemFree: 33852 kB
Buffers: 12632 kB
Cached: 39072 kB
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Is there any alternative for dosfsck that can handle a 1.5TB partition of hard disk?
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Mar 23, 2010
I am setting up a new server and am in the midst of testing RAID. This is an Ubuntu 9.10 server. RAID1 (/dev/md1) is spread across 12 one-terabyte SCSI disks (/dev/sdi through /dev/sdt). It has four spares configured, each of which are also one-terabyte SCSI drives (/dev/sdu through /dev/sdx). I have been following the instructions on the Linux RAID Wiki ([URL]....
I have already tested the RAID successfully by using mdadm to set a drive faulty. Automatic failover to spare and reconstruction worked like a champ. I am now testing "Force fail by hardware". Specifically, I am following the advice, "Take the system down, unplug the disk, and boot it up again." Well, I did that, and the RAID fails to start. It outright refuses to start. It doesn't seem to notice that a drive is missing. Notably, all the drive letters shift up to fill in the space left by removing a drive. The test I did was to:
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Is removing a disk from the bus a reasonable test in the first place? Meaning, is this likely to happen in a production environment by other means than a human coming by and yanking out the drive? Meaning, is there a hardware failure that would replicate this event? Because, if so, then I don't know how to recover from it.
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Sep 5, 2010
I have an Archos 605 media player that seems to have become corrupted, so I'm trying to run fsck on it. It mounts as a FAT32 hard drive, so I ran
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sudo dosfsck -a
and this is what I got:
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dosfsck 3.0.7, 24 Dec 2009, FAT32, LFN
There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 65:03/00 Not automatically fixing this. Unable to create unique name
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Apr 23, 2011
First, my mistake was unchecking the option to boot into Ubuntu through GRUB customizer. Woops.All I could do at this point was boot into Vista, that's about it.So, I boot into Vista, wiped the Linux partitions, and restored the ability to boot into Vista with a Vista CD. Then I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10, no problems here. Its just that when I boot up and get into the GRUB menu, I can't boot into my actual Vista. The option for it isn't present. I can boot into Ubuntu, Memory Test, and Vista's Recovery, but not Vista itself. Here is my GRUB cfg, haven't touched it or anything.
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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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I believe that my troubles lie in this part,
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ls: cannot access /var/lib/os-prober/mount/boot
Boot: No such file or directory
I'm unsure of what to do at this point, because I'm afraid of messing everything up.I have a Vista boot CD if I need it, an Ubuntu live CD, but that's about it. Too long, didn't read: Can't boot into Vista on sda2, what do?
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Dec 1, 2010
I'll avoid the details of what got me here and get right to the point.I have two primary partitions on 1 hard drive. sda1 is my fat32 recovery partition and sda2 is my ntfs windows xp partition. I need to know how to change the order around so xp is sda1 by using the terminal in the ubuntu live cd.
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Aug 17, 2010
My current setup has the following partition:
sda1: ubuntu 32-bits
sad2: ubuntu 64-bits
sad3: ext3 system for personal storage
sda4: swap
My idea is to format my sda2 to become ntfs and install a windows xp system.., my question is how this could affect my current grub2 config since the MBR loads from sda1?
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Jul 30, 2010
I've installed Gnewsense on my sda1 and I no longer have the option to load Ubuntu 10.04 on sda2 at boot. As Gnewsense is ext 3 I cannot access my files in my Ubuntu Home dir. Can I simply switch my boot to sda2? It will solve my problem for the medium term.
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Mar 27, 2010
I had a Centos install that corrupted the boot and would only boot to GRUB. After about a week of trying linux rescue and various measures I gave up and installed a fresh copy of Centos on /dev/hda which is a 40 GB drive. All my data was on /dev/sda which I did not overwrite and is a 1TB SATA drive. I added sda to the LVM of hda now and is recognized as part of Partition 2 - using the GUI Logical Volume Management. My problem is I can't seem to figure out how to retreive my data from the sda2 drive. This is what I've tried. code...
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Jun 6, 2011
I installed Fedora 15 onto sda2, and a df looks like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 3.9G 3.4G 311M 92% /
udev 991M 0 991M 0% /dev
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May 9, 2010
Since a few days i can no longer use my external hard drive (USB). During my quest i noticed the following things: Running openSUSE 11.2 / KDE 4.4.3 / single boot My internal HD is on /dev/sda2 (mounted /) partition manager (YaST) or gparted don't start up (they just hang during start-up) I had to change permissions suddenly to read a CD (i was not in de cdrom group, but i have been using CDs for a while)
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> df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 113306052 84757232 22793136 79% /
udev 2052352 4140 2048212 1% /dev
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Jan 25, 2010
I used GParted to delete my first partition,then moved my second partition to the beginning of the disk. That all went well, but the partition table still shows an unused entry of 0 blocks listed at partition 1. How do I get rid of that entry and make my old second partition sda1?
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Feb 26, 2010
this is my structure:
[root@ iso]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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And I want to restore some files from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00.
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Dec 19, 2010
However, when I installed Oracle Express Edition Database 10g, it complains that I have insufficient disk space on '/' directory. Here is a snapshot of my system. Wondering if I would like to swap the free space from /dev/sda5 into /dev/sda2.
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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders
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May 21, 2009
openSUSE Install/Boot/Login: I am looking for a Linux distribution with a working LTSP OOTB. LTSP-openSUSE / KIWI-LTSP looks interesting (http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP).
When I boot openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso, go through the installer, and attempt to use encrypted LVM, I get the following error dialog:
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YaST2
Error Failure occurred during following action: Setting up encrypted dm device on /dev/sda2 System error code was: -3034
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May 20, 2010
I have been dual-booting Vista and openSUSE 11.2 until my SUSE install is fully functional and now and I want rid of Vista and to reclaim the space for Linux.
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x28000000
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sda2 and sda3 are the Vista partitions. sda2 is a recovery partition and sda3 is the main partition. All data is safely copied from sda3 and now I want to reformat them for SUSE. I not bothered about partition resizing i.e. I am happy to just have the sda2/sda3 space available to SUSE and mount them somewhere.
1) Do I need to do anything about the boot table first or can I just reformat sda2 & sda3?
2) How should I format sda2/sda3? I'm guessing I need to unmount them and then format. Should I use ext4 or something else? Which command/tool should I use?
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Feb 14, 2011
I'm migrating my OpenSuse 11.3 (which was update from 11.2, 11.1 ........ ) to a new hard drive. My partitions were reiserfs and in the migration I'm "converting" them to ext4, the conversion process is simple and it works fine for all of them except the root one:
1) I create a new partition on the new hard disk (bigger than the original one)
2) I format it with ext4
3) I copy all the data with cp -a from the original partition to the new one
I already have all the partitions migrated to the second disk, then I have tried to do it with the root partition:
-I've booted with a system rescue CD and I've done !9 2) and 3) with no problems.
-I've edited and changed al entries in fstab and grub conf (menu.lst) to point the new partitions
-I've reinstalled grub and it seemed It will be no problems booting, but
It begins booting, the grub menu appears, It begins booting the kernel, but suddenly:
waiting for /dev/root to appear: OK
fsck.reiserfs -a /dev/sda2
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mount -o ro,ad,user_xattr -t reiserfs /dev/root /root
and it fails, because sda2 is not reiserfs, but why does it try to mount it as reiserfs if I'm not saying anywhere it is reiserfs?
This is my fstab:
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#/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160211AS_6PT0V05Y-part2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00S9B0_WD-WCAV91599607-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00S9B0_WD-WCAV91599607-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00S9B0_WD-WCAV91599607-part3 /home ext4 defaults 1 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630A_9QG94AT1-part1 /mnt/backup auto noauto, defaults, users, exec .....
I've booted it also with SuperGrub2 disk and the same thing happened, so I think it's not a grub problem but I don't wknow why it tried to mount the root partition as reiserfs.
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Dec 5, 2010
Trying to complete a RAID 1 mirror on a running system and have run into a wall at the last part. I can't add the active physical disk to the mirror. This is on a Centos 5.6 x86_64 system. Anybody know where to go from here? I've tried adding the nodmraid line to the kernel boot line with no luck. Tried removing the logical volumes from LVM, but it won't let me. Not a Linux newbie, but haven't set up a RAID in a long time.
[root@blackbox-0-2-e3-23-72-c5 ~]# mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sda2
mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sda2: Device or resource busy
Here's output from fdisk -l:
[root@blackbox-0-2-e3-23-72-c5 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
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Here's mdadm.conf:
[root@blackbox-0-2-e3-23-72-c5 ~]# cat /etc/mdadm.conf
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=3c6f7354:b9bfc86a:aa9d0dfb:cdd51bd8
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=31ee55ba:be3b3606:974ac87d:627435a9
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Feb 10, 2011
my laptop doesnt have any cdrom drive and all usbs are broken so wubi is my only option. oh and i use win 7 starter. i tried to install netbook edition to my laptop but i always get error. i can install with only "acpi workarounds". i dont even understand what it is the error and why i'm getting this error.
error is
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Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/sda2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v.1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands
(initramfs)
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Mar 27, 2010
I want to change my sda2 partition to ntfs type. i have installed GParted but it is returning a strange type of error. Here is the error dump file...
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WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot. WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.
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Jul 22, 2010
i made space by shrinking my window partition and so i have unallocated and would like to add to sda2 to have more space. Check out this pic. How can i do this?
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Mar 2, 2011
I got two harddisks, sda and sdb. Is it possible to install Debian root into software raid partitions sda2 and sdb1 leaving all other partitions 'normal' (not-raid)? do partitions sda2 and sdb1 need to be exact same size and position?
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Jan 22, 2010
i have a server with 4 x 1 TB SATA II storages. My Raid-configuration consists of 2 Raidset with 2 Raid 1. My Raidcontroller is a LSI-Megaraid. After the installation of Centos 5.4 occurs the following errors:
Found duplicate PV 3auCs5BBXMHt9XRRdaqeY2juPEYMTqM5: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 Found duplicate PV AkV8N3myHRgIl2bODWZ5ZSPHx0H6uHPL: using /dev/sdd1 not /dev/sdc1 I bound the storages in the LVM. How can i fix this error?
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May 14, 2010
/etc/sysconfig/bootloader contains this line:
DEFAULT_APPEND="resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EARS-00Y5B1_WD-WCAV55372533-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts"
Which works fine - except that I am going to clone this machine
and this will fail on all the other disks, which have a different serial number. It needs to be
resume=/dev/sda5
Similarly, /boot/grub/menu.lst has for root=
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EARS-00Y5B1_WD-WCAV55372533-part6
which will need to be /dev/sda6.
The part5 piece of this cannot be changed in yast. I selected that line, edited to /dev/sda5, and it came back the same way.
The part6 seems to be coming from /etc/fstab, changed it by hand to /dev/sda6, but it may not stay that way the next time yast runs. Similar changes to menu.lst did not survive a reboot, defaulting back to the "part5" syntax.
Is there some way to employ "/dev/sdX' syntax using yast, or is this one of those cases where one must work around the "help" of the easy configuration tool?
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Apr 11, 2011
I have problem with XEN Citrix server I can not understand ; what is sda2 and sda3 partitions ?
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root@cl-500 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000407625728 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1907737 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
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Jan 31, 2010
I have tried to install vlc on my ubuntu 9.04. Initially all went fien, vlc was here and did work. I tiried to uniinstall, then install again, still no cure. what went here wrong? And how to correct all?
next time I tried to run it, nothing happened, no process of vlc could be found and so I tried to start it form cmd with following results:
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(<unknown>:5056): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed
(<unknown>:5056): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed
(<unknown>:5056): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pango_context_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
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Aug 3, 2010
Final update: No matter what has been tried throughout this thread, the gnome foot icon refuses to budge, so: I give up.I'll update this again IF the creator of the icons ever responds to me..Yet still the icon (gnome foot) remains, and i can't figure out why.
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Aug 23, 2010
I have the new Ubuntu 10.04.1 and I heard that the new VLC was released. I found out that I had to add a PPA to the repository, so I added it but I keep getting this error.
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Jan 17, 2011
I've been running Maverick for a while now, and I decided to use the extra (unallocated, don't worry) space on my hd to install XP. After I installed XP I realized that I didn't get GRUB, so I couldn't boot Ubuntu. I tried fixing it using this, but to no avail. The only thing that happens now is that my computer boots up normally, but where GRUB would usually be, I now see a black screen. This is getting to be VERY aggravating.
Also, which partition should be flagged as boot? currently I have my Maverick partition flagged as boot because it has a boot directory. Should I not have any partition flagged as boot?
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