RHEL V4 dont boot
 

Guys

I am newbie for RHEL, using RHEL V4 update 2 with lvm-2 ( mainly ext3 filesystems).

Now my server got crashed due to power failure and while rebooting it got stuck up... saying errors

fsck.ext3: No such file or directory ..error mounting /dev/Volgroup00/lv03

I got into maintaience mode and run fsck and then tried to mount it , but fail....


what should i do to recover my system ... i tried many times but not sucessfull .. please guide me!!!


Regards

Polani

Try to boot from a Live CD/Rescue Disk then try to run a fsck

You Should be going to Single User Mode and Run fsck on lvol3 file system and See if corrects it. If not probably you lost that file system. Re-create file system and restore from tape/backup.

Re:RHEL V4 dont boot
 

Guys thanks for help

I booted from Linux CD and gone into rescue mode and ran fsck , but still not success. Another thing is that when i run parted command in single user mode , it shows both partitions while i list partitions ( but it shows ext3 type for only one partition ) while the partition which is facing problem , is displayed without any filesystem type.


It seems that this partition has lost its type memory....


Still this partition does not contain any critical data...but kindly tell me how i can skip mounting this filesystem??? and boot the machine....

Thaks in advance for help!!!


Polani

Re:RHEL dont boot
 

Guys

Thanks for your help

I just edited /etc/fstab and removed that problamatic filesystem entry and system has now rebooted successfully.

Although it seems that this filesystem is unrecoverable for me , but still for my own knowledge want to know that that whether for ext3 filesystems , fsck is the only recovery tool available or is there any tool called ext3.fsck???

or something e2fsck ??? what are the main differences between these tools ???

Please elaborate !!

thanks again


Polani

You can use fsck.ext3 , to best of my knowledge fsck actually calls e2fsck with some other options.