Re: can't boot F19 system

[Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/20/2014 08:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

On Mar 20, 2014, at 6:11 PM, pgaltieri . <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I run fsck on the disk it comes back clean. 

Try

fsck.ext4 -f <dev>

It's possible the journal is clean but the file system is not.

So how does Linux decide if a drive can be safely removed versus unmounted?

If it's unmounted it's safe to remove. If it's mounted, it's not safe to remove.

If you're mainly using mate, I'd think that it has a way to automount volumes, and therefore when you reboot it'll unmount them cleanly first. I don't know that it needs to be in fstab.

Chris Murphy

Chris,
  my question referred to the menu option.  In one case the menu option says "Safely Remove Drive" in the other case the menu option says "Unmount".  In the case of "Safely Remove" when I select it the system unmounts then remounts the filesystem.  In the case of "Unmount" the system unmounts the filesystem, but does not remount it.

Paolo

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