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error @ boot, fsck dies with exit status3

Asked by ericc

Ubuntu 7.04 and XP on a dual boot system, XP on a 80GB ata HD, ubuntu on 40GB sata HD.

It ran fine for a while but now when I attempt to boot ubuntu FSCK reports following errors:

sdb1 : Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED.
sdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced.
fsck performs a filesystem check, dies with exit status 3 and system reboots, only to run in to the same errors. Note that fsck checks SDB1.

I started ubuntu from a live cd to perform fsck manually, like this : sudo fsck -p /dev/hdd1
According to fdisk hdd is my 40GB sata disk. ( fdisk -l /dev/hdd ).

Result from manual fsck : Clean. Still, no-go. I run into the same errors on boot.

Is this related to the fact that fsck apparently checks another filesystem (sdb1) ?
Manually, from the live cd, I can not force fsck to check an sdb1 since sdb1 is nowhere to be found...

Suggestions anyone ?

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thanks for the question.

You can run

sudo lshw -C disk

(capital C !) and you will get the device addresses for your harddrives.

I hope this helps

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