missing but somehow corrupt partition

BrainScanning · 12-13-2004, 12:50 AM

Hello everyone, I received the following message during bootup:

/data11 contains a file system with errors, check forced.

The check takes about 8 hours to complete. I would like to avoid this check especially since I don't have a /data11 partition under / .

Does anyone know why my system is identifying this apparently huge partition when I can't find it anywhere? And how can I remove it from my system?

I looked inside the fstab file but it is not listed in there.

Thank you

mritch · 12-13-2004, 01:56 AM

the message means, that the filesystem gets checked; this is the case if it wasn't shut down clean or whenever it's maximal mount count has been reached.

you'll have to tell us what sort of filesysstem (ext3, reiserfe, ext2,...) is on that partition. see /etc/fstab or /proc/mounts for that info.

if it's ext2/3 see "$ man tune2fs" and the -c -i options there.

sl mritch.

BrainScanning · 12-13-2004, 02:10 AM

thanks for the response, mritch...

The thing is that I can't find /data11 in either of those files /etc/fstab or /proc/mounts. Even when I grep those to files nothing comes up with "data11". It may have been an old partition. Is it possible that the /data11 partition is defined in some other file, besides fstab and mounts, that I am overlooking? Something is my system is allocating this area as "data11" but I cannot find what is responsible for this... Your help is appreciated.

gd2shoe · 12-13-2004, 02:33 AM

I'd also check "cat /proc/partitions" for anything unusual. All of your drives and partitions should show up. If you have an extra partition there, then you may have found your phantom. You can also look for inconsistencies in "fdisk -l".

I would check your boot log /var/log/boot.msg for more information about the check. maybe "dmesg" as well.

mritch · 12-13-2004, 03:02 AM

send in relevant info (where does this line show up) from your dmesg/messages output. do you have raid on your sys, the check /etc/raidtab.

verify your partitionlayout with tools like parted (# parted /dev/hdX) or fdisk.

sl mritch.