e2fsck not working

Asked Sep 03 '13 at 12:30

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I am using Linux slitaz on my machine. I am able to see drives on the left side of the screen but when I click the drives it is giving the error cannot open the drive.

When I ran the e2fsck on that partition I am getting an error. I used the following command to run e2fsck:

e2fsck -y -f -V /dev/hda3

and this gives the following error:

error:
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda3
Could this be a zero-length partition?

How can I resolve this?

when i did fdisk -l, i got this

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/hda1               1        2550    20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2            2551        2615      522112+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3            2616        6439    30716280  83 Linux
/dev/hda4            6440        9729    26426925  83 Linux

edited Sep 04 '13 at 09:55

asked Sep 03 '13 at 12:30

CJAY

Are you sure `/dev/hda3` is a partition that contains an ext2 filesystem? – Shadur Sep 03 '13 at 12:50
@Shadur actually it is ext3 filesystem. – CJAY Sep 03 '13 at 12:55
There's your first mistake, then. – Shadur Sep 03 '13 at 22:13
@Shadur What mistake? `e2fsck` applies to ext2, ext3 and ext4. Mithunds: please copy-paste the output of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` and `tune2fs -l /dev/hda3`. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Sep 03 '13 at 22:30
@Gilles sometimes Hard drive will not be detected. – CJAY Sep 04 '13 at 07:31
Then your problem is not that e2fsck isn't working, but that your hard drive isn't working. Check the cable, and if that's not it, replace the hard drive by a working one. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Sep 04 '13 at 07:35
@Gilles but some times it will be detected... when it is detected, i did fdisk -l and i got this.. – CJAY Sep 04 '13 at 09:53
@Gilles I have edited the post.. – CJAY Sep 04 '13 at 09:55
@Gilles and when i click on detected drive i am getting this error Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure – CJAY Sep 04 '13 at 10:12
Concur with @Gilles -- almost certainly a hardware issue. Especially if it's only detected "sometimes". – Shadur Sep 04 '13 at 13:54

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