fsck died with exit status 8

[flyineste]

Hi

I need help !

My computer froze yesterday (it happens) but when I reboot, nothing works.

I have only 3 partitions one for boot, one for swap and one for /home
It can't find /home.

And I can't find it neither. It seems to have disappeared...

As I can't reboot, I'm running on the live-cd !!


Here are some logs :
/var/log/fsck/checkfs

Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
Mon Dec 28 00:33:51 2009

fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=20fb5021-6a0a-466b-bef9-8ad42c3ea522'

fsck died with exit status 8

Mon Dec 28 00:33:59 2009
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/etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=1e7f0163-9eb0-459c-b620-9872621c2b17 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=20fb5021-6a0a-466b-bef9-8ad42c3ea522 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=d93b2a77-303f-4f4d-b28c-39e75f6c3844 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
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PLEASE Help me !!
I'd really like to recover that disk as the last backup is from last month...

Tell me what you need

Tks

[flyineste]

some terminal look up....


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb409b409

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 1520 2441880 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 1521 30515 232902337+ 83 Linux

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
aufs / aufs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 470M 2.4M 467M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 470M 2.4M 467M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 470M 0 470M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 470M 108K 470M 1% /var/run
varlock 470M 0 470M 0% /var/lock
udev 470M 140K 469M 1% /dev
tmpfs 470M 268K 469M 1% /dev/shm
rootfs 470M 218M 252M 47% /
/dev/sr0 699M 699M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 676M 676M 0 100% /rofs
tmpfs 470M 16K 470M 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 9.2G 3.3G 5.5G 38% /media/disk

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[devils casper]

Try to replace UUID of /home partition with actual device name in /etc/fstab file.

/dev/sda3  /home ext3 relatime 0 0

[flyineste]

I tried that already after seing it on other threads but as I'm running on the live-cd it doesn't give me access to modify the fstab

or maybe with the nano ? don't know how to use it !

[devils casper]

You can edit any file through sudo.
Execute this

sudo nano /media/disk/etc/fstab

It will open /etc/fstab file in nano editor.
Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.

* I assumed that /dev/sda1 has been mounted at /media/disk folder.

[flyineste]

done

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=1e7f0163-9eb0-459c-b620-9872621c2b17 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 relatime 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=d93b2a77-303f-4f4d-b28c-39e75f6c3844 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Have reboot but still got the same message :
"your user folder seems to be /home/flyineste but that folder doesn't seem to exist..."

[devils casper]

Does Desktop or Login screen appear at all?
Boot up from LiveCD and create two folders in /media for /dev/sda1 and sda3.

cd /media
sudo mkdir ubuntu home
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/ubuntu
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media/home

Post the output of this

ls /media/home/home

Check the contents of /media/ubuntu/etc/fstab file. Does it list correct line for /home?

[flyineste]

desktop appear when I agree to follow up the boot with /root instead of /home/'user' .. But then it's totally empty.
If not bootup on /root > login screen but can't go further "user folder seems not to exist..."

trouble in the last line to mount /dev/sda3

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /media
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mkdir ubuntu home
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/ubuntu
ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media/home
mount : type erroné de syst .de fichiers, option erronée, super bloc
erroné sur /dev/sda3, codepage ou aide manquante ou autre erreur
Dans quelques cas certaines informations sont utiles dans syslog - essayez
dmesg | tail ou quelque chose du genre

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ ls /media/home/home
ls: ne peut accéder /media/home/home: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type


(bootup in frrench this time... last line= ls: can't access, no file or folder of this name.

/media/ubuntu/etc/fstab is the same than the other /media/disk/etc/fstab and hasn't change from last post

[devils casper]

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media/home
mount : type erroné de syst .de fichiers, option erronée, super bloc
erroné sur /dev/sda3, codepage ou aide manquante ou autre erreur
Dans quelques cas certaines informations sont utiles dans syslog - essayez
dmesg | tail ou quelque chose du genre

Could you translate this?
Are you sure that /home has ext3 filesystem?
Try to fsck /dev/sda3 partition.

sudo umount /dev/sda3
sudo fsck.ext3 /dev/sda3

[flyineste]

a friend told me about technical issue. as the "nail" could be out of track on the hard drive disk... could that be what is happening ?