First Karmic issue - manual fsck

[sn3rd]

My girlfriend freaked out today. Her netbook hung, and wouldn't reboot, complaining the filesystem could not be mounted. I ran a fsck and all was fine.

I chalked it up to her screwing around, but when I booted my netbook, the same issue occurred. Same fix.

So for anyone this happens to, make sure you know what your root filesystem is

df -B G

or

cat /etc/fstab

then assuming your root partition is /dev/sda1 you should run

fsck /dev/sda1

from the root terminal it crashes to

 

[d0b33]

This will do a fsck on all drives at bootup...

sudo touch /forcefsck

 

[BigAl-sa]

I wonder whether the problem would be with / or /boot, if you have them on different partitions?

 

[ponder]

Probably a file system issue many Karmic users are experiencing.