Martial Herbaut wrote: > > fsck.ext3 -f /dev/sda2 > Yes many times, it then recovers, boots up normally then a few errors > later same error all over again.. :( -> loop fsck-error-fsck > The worse thing is that I also since then forced that partition (root) to > ext2 in the fstab but for some reason unknown to me it persists to wanting > to commit to journal anyway even though the partition shows mounted ext2.. > > what do you think? > Very strange. Sounds like the metadata for the journal file itself is wrecked. It's the root filesystem - the kernel mounts that itself, so /etc/fstab has no effect. Look in /proc/mounts and you'll see that it's really mounted by ext3. Try removing the journal altogether: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 e2fsck -f /dev/sda2 this should convert the filesystem to ext2. You can then boot with it as ext2, then run `tune2fs -J /dev/sda2' to turn it back to ext3.
