Hi, The file system is clean and un-mounted, but fsck still reports problem. Any ideas? Thanks. arc178.alexa.com root 143% df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram 92123 73307 16850 82% / none 158928 0 158928 0% /dev/shm vectra2:/export/fedora_1.0/usr 19607928 14238400 4373496 77% /usr vectra2:/export/fedora_1.0/alexa 19607928 14238400 4373496 77% /alexa barker:/lib0/home 48063808 35722592 11860576 76% /.amd_mnt/barker/lib0/home arc178.alexa.com root 144% e2label /dev/hda10 /var arc178.alexa.com root 145% fsck -a fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) /: clean, 25228/131328 files, 51855/262144 blocks /0: clean, 4083/7651328 files, 329408/15291604 blocks /1: clean, 12/10010624 files, 322337/20010808 blocks /2: clean, 12/9781248 files, 315144/19537552 blocks /3: clean, 12/9781248 files, 315144/19537552 blocks /alexa: clean, 1037/656640 files, 45657/1310720 blocks /usr: clean, 128634/656640 files, 690656/1310720 blocks Warning... fsck.ext3 for device LABEL=/var exited with signal 11. arc178.alexa.com root 146% dumpe2fs /dev/hda10 dumpe2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) Filesystem volume name: /var Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 09e27eea-0f9b-4e93-a7eb-17a7e48d698e Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 131328 Block count: 262144 Reserved block count: 13109 Free blocks: 226076 Free inodes: 129792 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16416 Inode blocks per group: 513 Filesystem created: Fri Apr 2 16:56:48 2004 Last mount time: Fri Apr 2 16:57:45 2004 Last write time: Fri Apr 2 17:12:11 2004 Mount count: 1 Maximum mount count: 38 Last checked: Fri Apr 2 16:56:48 2004 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Wed Sep 29 17:56:48 2004 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: fb411ff3-47d7-4d16-bd96-a7eb76a2a6dc Group 0: (Blocks 0-32767) Primary superblock at 0, Group descriptors at 1-1 Block bitmap at 2 (+2), Inode bitmap at 3 (+3) Inode table at 4-516 (+4) 23941 free blocks, 16381 free inodes, 10 directories Free blocks: 518-521, 8831-32767 Free inodes: 36-16416 -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:21 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: Strange Fedora Booting problem: can notmount 'LABEL=*' partitions Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Guolin Cheng um 01:50: > Hi, > > I'm not using an initrd.img file to boot. The FC1 can see|mount other > "LABEL=" partitions listed in fstab except this one. On the system disk > I have an extended logical partition. The "LABEL=/usr", "LABEL=/alexa", > "LABEL=/0" and "LABEL=/var" and other 3 swap parititions are all on the > extended Logical partition, All other 3 "LABEL=*" partitions are > detected and mounted well, except "LABEL=/var" partitions. > > The error message are always: > > " ... fsck.ext3 for device LABEL=/var exited with signal 11. ..." > > Then I'm in single user mode, while now I can run "mount /var" without > any problems. Too strange. To me the problem is not a mount problem at all. The error is a failure running fsck and _not_ mount. I fear your filesystem is bad on hda10. Being in single user mode, running fsck.ext3, will that succeed or give you a signal 11 error too? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 02:18:17 up 14 days, 10:00, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.09 [ Γνωθι σ'αυτον - gnothi seauton ] my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars