[ale] Reboot wedging problems after disk transplant

[hbbs at attbi.com]

John -

I assume you're running ext3.

This doesn't seem like a good sign.  If this happened to me, I'd want to safety
the data elsewhere (the original drive, CD-RW, etc) and try booting the machine
to a bootable CD distro (the Gentoo LiveCDs are good for this) so I could run
fsck against the / partition.  

I'd also be curious to know if there might be a mismatch between the ext3
utilities (fsck, mke2fs -j) and the ext3 support in the kernel or module you're
using.  

- Jeff
> ALErs -
> 
> I recently moved my RH-7.3 files to a larger HDD and now I am having 
> problems recovering from power outages.
> 
> Boots after power loss now show 'filesystem integrity failure' and
> commonly, lost INODES. (I haven't verified yet whether they are repeat
> offenders.)  This means the system can't go through its automatic fixup
> cycle and eventually complete its reboot. When I need it from out of town, 
> this is a _RealPain_(TM)!
> 
> I would like to run 'badblocks -o <bad_block_list>' on the partition,
> followed by 'fsck.ext3 -l <bad_block_list>' to take any badsters out of
> the pool.
> 
> PROBLEM: the partition in question is mounted as '/' ($%^&!!) which means
> I can't simply umount it and work.
> 
> I suppose I could 'tar' the contents of '/' to a directory in another
> partition, put in some soft-links from _that_ partition's root, patch
> '/etc/fstab', and reboot with the old contents of '/' now being found
> through links to the newly made directory. (I'm not sure how the new
> location of '/etc/fstab' will be resolved, though ...)
> 
> Any simpler suggestions? Can I configure the boot to force a
> non-interactive filesystem repair in such a case? If I can, should I?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  John Mills
>  john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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