On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Jussi Hirvi <listmember@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Something seems to be wrong with my file systems, and I want to fsck
> everything. But I cannot.
>
> The setup consists of 2 hds, carrying 3 raid1 (ext3) file systems (boot,
> /, swap). OS is up-to-date CentOS 5.
>
> So I boot from CentOS 5.3 dvd in rescue mode, do not mount the file
> systems, and try to run
> fsck -y /dev/md0
> fsck -y /dev/md1
> fsck -y /dev/md2
>
> For each try I get an error message: "Superblock could not be found..."
> "The device does not seem to contain a valid ext2 filesystem..."
>
> Well, of course not, the filesystem is ext3, not ext2.
>
> I also tried fsck.ext3, but the error messages stay the same.
>
> So, how could I fsck these arrays?
Are you using lvm on top of the mdraid?
If so you need to fsck the lvs not the mds.
-Ross
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