[wellylug] File recovery after a crash.

[Glen Ogilvie]

Hi John,

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:36:08 +1200, MDM Productions
<thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Glen Ogilvie wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:55:06 +1200, MDM Productions
>> <thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>>   
>>> Glen: No change. Specifically, at boot I get; fsck.ext3: Unable to 
>>> resolve 'UUID+454f0660-4fb9-4e3e-bf85-a94304c110ef' /dev/hda6: clean, 
>>> 4416/13123584 files, 1629111/26236145 blocks [failed]
>>> Any help?
>>>     
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Sounds like it can't find a partition, which points to /etc/fstab
having
>> something set in it which it can't find.
>>
>> You may need to boot into rescue mode, depending on if /root was
mounted
>> when it drops you to a shell.  The information needed
>> to know what is needed next is:
>>
>> cat /etc/fstab
>> fdisk -l
>> vol_id /dev/hda6 (and others)
>>
>> and, if you use lvm, may need to get lvm started and check the volume
>> groups in that too.
>>
>> Regards
>> Glen Ogilvie
>>
>>
>>   
> cat /etc/fstab returns for hda6: 
> UUID=3ac7970b-c2e8-4a94-80b0-c3dc41a6c80e /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none 
> /proc proc defaults 0 0
> hda1 is; / ext3 defaults 1 1
> hda5 is swap swap defaults 0 0
> ..and there is an sda1 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2  none /dev/pts devpts 
> mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0


Is the no /dev/hda6 in your /etc/fstab?

what is the root filesystem set to in grub? ( you can find this by editing
the grub command once you switch to text mode in grub ).

Glen