Fsck logs in Mint?

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Fsck logs in Mint?

Post by yuri21 »

Hmmm... does anyone know where to check for fsck logs in Linux-mint? So far, I've only found a small handful under /var/log/fsck

The reason I'm looking for them is 'cos Linux-mint seems to die whenever I boot up into Linux with my eSata external hdd turned off. It seems to die after fsck runs and fails, kicking me to bash.

I never had this issue under Ubuntu so I'm a little worried.
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yuri21

Post by yuri21 »

Okay, I found the logs but I still have no idea why this issue keeps happening. Shouldn't Mint be able to auto-detect if a hdd was removed and not complain about it?

Checkfs logs:
Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
Wed Aug 15 15:02:29 2007

fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sda2: clean, 28089/5128192 files, 9262798/10239429 blocks
/dev/sda3: clean, 75128/2562240 files, 2943116/5120718 blocks
/dev/sdc6: clean, 136959/3759264 files, 4382404/7503872 blocks
/dev/sdb1: clean, 13/9781248 files, 367367/19537040 blocks
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=b340d62d-5908-48e3-bb52-79bcdcaf8892'

fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=2426e230-e6c1-4577-aec6-bb343a6350fe'

fsck died with exit status 8

Wed Aug 15 15:02:29 2007
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Fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdd7
UUID=1250bfbf-0a1c-467e-9abe-0433ce068c99 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sdd6
UUID=c46971c0-dc7f-4447-9a8a-0f79eae92242 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=5C4823D34823AB2A /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=818924b7-0379-47ba-b116-c8a4c8c736f9 /media/sda2 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=40e6aec7-192d-4e29-b1aa-0ab6419c0314 /media/sda3 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda4
UUID=2E54B5B654B5815F /media/sda4 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=b340d62d-5908-48e3-bb52-79bcdcaf8892 /media/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=2426e230-e6c1-4577-aec6-bb343a6350fe /media/sdb2 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdc1
UUID=04188596-bf72-4175-a32e-66788620fabb /media/sdc1 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdd5
UUID=47cf4074-3968-4aa2-8ddd-67d39f19d6e3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/disk output:
hidan@asami:~$ sudo ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 2007-08-15 23:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2007-08-15 23:05 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 04188596-bf72-4175-a32e-66788620fabb -> ../../sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 1250bfbf-0a1c-467e-9abe-0433ce068c99 -> ../../sdd7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 2426e230-e6c1-4577-aec6-bb343a6350fe -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 2E54B5B654B5815F -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 40e6aec7-192d-4e29-b1aa-0ab6419c0314 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 47cf4074-3968-4aa2-8ddd-67d39f19d6e3 -> ../../sdd5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 5C4823D34823AB2A -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 818924b7-0379-47ba-b116-c8a4c8c736f9 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 b340d62d-5908-48e3-bb52-79bcdcaf8892 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-15 23:05 c46971c0-dc7f-4447-9a8a-0f79eae92242 -> ../../sdd6
Husse

Post by Husse »

I don't know which i s your external disk, but I don't need to know that to see what's wrong
It's UUID :(
UUID is supposed to be a Universal IDentifier, and it is, but it has some serious drawbacks. The UUID of a disk can change if the disk/partition changes in some respect - and if that happens to a disk/partition in fstab - which does not change correspondingly you get your problem
Change

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# /dev/sdb1
UUID=b340d62d-5908-48e3-bb52-79bcdcaf8892 /media/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 2 
to

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# /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 2 
and in the same way change

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# /dev/sdb2
UUID=2426e230-e6c1-4577-aec6-bb343a6350fe /media/sdb2 ext3 defaults 0 2 
to

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# /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2 ext3 defaults 0 2 
The long UUID is just another way of saying /dev/sdb2 or /dev/sdb1 or whatever...
It is irritating, but on the other hand you don't change your partitions too often - and it does not happen just because you remove an external hdd connected by USB. If you use E-SATA and the disk is in fstab it's another story - I'm actually uncertain as to what happens and cannot test
If these partitions are your external disk connected by E-SATA and you still get the problem after the change above you have tested :)
yuri21

Post by yuri21 »

Yay!!!! That worked!!!:D

Yes ... sdb1 and sdb2 were my ext partitions. :)

Now, I just need to figure out how to get eSata hotplugging working and it should be fine. :)
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