[arch-general] systemd fsck

[Aurko Roy]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:57 AM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> I just moved my desktop to systemd, and saw a couple things as I
> booted it for the first time:
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> 1) It is *fast*. Let me say that again. It is *fast*. I have never
> seen a system come up this fast. Critics of systemd might want to
> consider that.
>
> 2) But I did notice an error that worried me--just because it looks
> worrying--as it came up:
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> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: /dev/sda3 is mounted.
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: e2fsck: Cannot continue,
> aborting.
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: fsck failed with error code 8.
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: Ignoring error.
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[289]: /dev/sdb1: clean,
> 398077/33554432 files, 27916145/134217728 blocks
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[287]: /dev/sdb3: clean,
> 647214/21102592 files, 26531961/84405504 blocks
> Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[348]: /dev/sda4: clean,
> 1650719/59490304 files, 57620902/237931957 blocks
> Aug 09 13:34:37 graton systemd-fsck[320]: /dev/sda1: clean, 33/10040
> files, 22152/40160 blocks
> Aug 09 13:34:37 graton systemd-fsck[293]: /dev/sdb2: clean,
> 4926903/67125248 files, 195736925/268500992 blocks
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> /dev/sda3 is the root partition.
>
> - --
> David Benfell
> benfell at parts-unknown.org
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An error code of 8 for fsck means an operational error/general failure. Do
you get this error every time you boot or is it a one off thing? Have you
tried running it manually?

FWIW, I don't think mounting root without the "ro" option should be causing
this problem, then again it is better to check and see if it works.

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Aurko Roy
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