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terrybull

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Registered: 2011-11-06

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dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

I have slitaz 5 installed on a very old laptop (Pent II 300Mhz). HArd disc formatted to ext2. Power down in the usual manner but each time I start i get a message that sda1 was not cleanly unmounted and a re check is forced which takes quite a while. How can I stop this.

Thanks

terrybull

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Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

No replies. Can anyone please suggest a solution.

Thanks.

shann

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Registered: 2011-04-01

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Re: dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

Hi terrybull,

Sorry for late answer

At first you can check to remove /dev/sda1 from /etc/rcS.conf in CHECK_FS

Hope that your disk/partition not really corrupt

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

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Re: dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

Hi terrybull,

Still later than shan

https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/checking-file-sytem-on-every-startup

Same problem, same solution.

I still have a computer with a separated ext2 [c]/home[/c].

A few monthes ago I shutoff accidently the power supply when the computer was working.

I had to run e2fsck manually from a Live session to fix some errors; then the computer boots without the message [c]dev/sda3 not cleanly unmounted[/c] for monthes.

Unfortunately the message reappeared after I mounted/unmounted manually the partition in a Live session (maybe only hazard); now I can still see the message from time to time.

I removed /dev/sda3 from [c]CHECK_FS[/c] in [c]/etc/rcS.conf[/c] for a long time but finally I prefered to restablish it. The best solution I found to don't see the message and wait the disk is scanned, is to start the computer, go and take a coffee and come back...

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

Hi terrybull,

Still later than shan

https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/checking-file-sytem-on-every-startup

Same problem, same solution.

I still have a computer with a separated ext2 [c]/home[/c].

A few monthes ago I shutoff accidently the power supply when the computer was working.

I had to run e2fsck manually from a Live session to fix some errors; then the computer boots without the message [c]dev/sda3 not cleanly unmounted[/c] for monthes.

Unfortunately the message reappeared after I mounted/unmounted manually the partition in a Live session (maybe only hazard); now I can still see the message from time to time.

I removed /dev/sda3 from [c]CHECK_FS[/c] in [c]/etc/rcS.conf[/c] for a long time but finally I prefered to restablish it. The best solution I found to don't see the message and wait the disk is scanned, is to start the computer, go and take a coffee and come back...

terrybull

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Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: dev/sda1 not cleanly unmounted

Many thanks for the replies Shann and Ceel. I looked in /etc/rcS and found the following lines:

# Filesystems to check integrity of at boot time. You should check the

# rootfs (where SliTaz is installed) and all partitions listed in fstab.

# Example: CHECK_FS="/dev/hda5 /dev/hdb1"

CHECK_FS="UUID=c78323da-3c49-4469-be9d-7b73549fcd96"

and removed the line "UUID=c78323da-3c49-4469-be9d-7b73549fcd96" which i assume is my sda1

Have I done the correct thing. It is booting fine, without the file system check.

The problem I have that the file system check takes quite a long time on the rather ancient laptop

(Pentium II @300Mhz)

So the problem is solved but should I worry that the file system was apparently unmounted correctly and the hdd should be checked? How should I get it to unmount correctly?