mount error 6 mounting ext3
Hi All,
I was attempting to backup my Dell 2950 running RHEL 4 when the Acronis software told me that there were disk errors and that I should run a scan on the disk and fix the errors before proceeding. At a terminal I ran e2fsck -C fd /dev/sda2 which found muliple errors that I said yes to fix. When I rebooted the box it came up with multiple errors indicating that VolGroup_ID_9383 volume metadata is inconsistant and Volume group for uuid not found. At the end of the errors was this: mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! The box will not boot past that point. Can this be fixed or have I hosed the OS? If you know how to fix please be detailed as I am a noob. Thanks. |
If you ran an fsck on a mounted partition, you wiped it. Format, re-install and restore from backup.
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Yikes!
DOH!
Thanks for your reply. I actually ran this command first "umount /dev/sda2" and although I can't remember exactly what the output was now it was something similar to "nothing to unmount"... I'm now guessing that I might of fat fingered the command which is why it didn't find anything to unmount. Thanks again, ~James |
You can't unmount a mounted root partition. How would the system keep running when its root is down? This type of job is preferably executed from a liveCD or a different operating system.
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