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PLEASE ASSIST: Failure to mount filesystem / swapspace when booting up fully installed Karmic Koala

Asked by Dickson

I am running the latest release of Ubuntu's Karmic Koala - that I recently installed as my sole operating system (on a partition called /dev/sda1).

It has been running successfully for several weeks - without any problems whatsoever. I update regularly and have found the system extremely straightforward and easy to use.

However, after a recent restart each time I start up the laptop the login screen indicates it is commencing a filesystem check.

When the filesystem check gets to 70%, it fails due to an error and drops to a maintenance shell (of which I am completely unfamiliar with as I am a newbie still trying to learn Linux based systems).

The maintenance shell indicates that there is a problem activating the swap and mounting the filesystem, both of which have not been modified - so it appears as though something may have corrupted.

I have no idea how to fix this and get things running correctly again.

I would like to get it up and running again as I have all my programs set up nicely - and I really don't want to start again from scratch. I have documents on there that I would like to access, but can't.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks :)

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Merlyn Peter (eight-merlyn) said : 		#1

Hi Dickson,
I have exactly the same problem. Let me know what happens. Otherwise it is a complete install again.
Merlyn

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Dickson (dicksonpayne-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Hi Merlyn,

I re-posted the same question at a later time that received a response that worked. The fix was as follows:

Boot the system from Live CD of Ubuntu 9.10.

(1) Then go to System => Administration => Gpart. Run Gpart.
(2) In Gpart, select your file system partition (/dev/sda1), mark it for check and repair. Then run the utility.

It is self-explanatory. Gpart fixes the errors. Then just reboot normally.

Hope it helps. It fixed my problem straight away :)