Re: Re[2]: fsck root fs: fsck, devfs, /proc/mounts miscooperate.

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:14:17PM +0300, VDA wrote:
> 
> Installed e2fsprogs 1.23. It does not print warning now on
> "fsck /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1"
> However, it still cannot fs check root fs when given "fsck /" which I
> really need in my init script. Now the only way to do root fs check
> for me is to parse /proc/mounts and extract mount point for / via sed
> (I have never used sed yet...).
> 
> # fsck /
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999)
> e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /sbin/e2fsck: Is a directory while trying to open /

Umm... it works for me.  (No, I don't use devfs, but I do test
e2fsprogs to make sure they do some sane vs. devfs by using UML...)

usermode:/etc# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/ubd/0 / ext2 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0622 0 0
usermode:/etc# fsck -NV /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
[/sbin/fsck.ext2 -- /] fsck.ext2 /dev/ubd/0 


What does your /etc/mtab file show for an entry for the root
filesystem when you're trying to make it work?  Fsck does require that
/etc/mtab is sane, and I'm guessing that you're missing an entry in
/etc/mtab for /. 

						- Ted