fsck errors at boot

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:00:50 -0500, Robert Crosbie
<swingincelt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting a fsck error at boot thats a bit confusing:
> 
> Filesystem is Clean.
> Filesystem seems to have fatal corruptions.  Running with
> --rebuild-tree is required.
>   *ev/sda1: clean  33/522240 files, 80815/1044193 blocks       [fail]
>   * fsck failed. Please repair manually.
> 
> It seems to be referring to /dev/sda1, but that is my boot partition
> which is ext3 and fsck doesn't have a --rebuild-tree option as far as
> I can tell.  I've tried running fsck -pcfv and the partition comes up
> clean.
> 
> I do have a reiserfs /dev/sda3, but I've also run fsck --check and
> --rebuild-tree and it always comes out clean also.  If I continue with
> Ctrl-d the system boots and runs without any problems as far as I can
> see.
> 
> What file system checks are being run at boot?  How would I fix this problem?

personally I would boot with a live-cd, and manually  fsck that
partition from "outside" your running ubuntu.  Just to be on the safe
side...