Hi All,

I had a power failure on this machine and since have not been able to mount new drives.

When I try a df, I get:
df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: Stale NFS file handle

If I try and edit view or delete etc/mtab I get:
/etc/mtab: Stale NFS file handle

I also see these errors relating to mtab at boot, so I would like to run fsck on the root to try and fix these erors but so far haven't been able to get it to run. So far I have tried

• shutdown -Fr now
• "touch /forcefsck" then reboot
• changed the mount count to be higher than the maximum mount count using tune2fs then rebooted

I have also edited the /etc/init.d/voyage-util file to make sure the system boots does not boot in read only mode.

Still I am unable to force an fsck to run, am I missing something?

Thanks

It may work if you use .forcefsck instead of forcefsck.

try as root

And as a last resort, just boot single user, remount the root as rw in need. Do the fsck (yes, whilst mounted), then immediately reboot.

NFS is a network share. The computer offering the share may need the nfsserver process restarted.

This worked, ran a fsck, it fixed the errors now everything is working again as it should. Thank you very much for your advice.