Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 02:05:15PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 
> /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fck MANUALLY.
> (i.e. without -a or -p options)
> fck exited with status code 4
> done
> Failure: File system check of the root fiile system failed
> The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires a manual fck
> 
That should be fsck shouldn't it?  ... or maybe fck is similar, but
I've not come across it before.


> BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3.3) built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for list a of built-in commands
> 
> (initramfs) [  191.223965] usb 2-4: new......
> (A bunch of hardware discovery lines follow)
> 
> 
> At the time of the power loss the system was performing 3 video
> downloads to disk, so presumably such an operation was interrupted by
> the power loss.
> 
> What can I do now?
> When I type help I get output showing a number of commands which do
> not include the fck command...
> 
You need to boot from an Ubuntu dvd (or usb stick) and run fsck from
that against the hard drive on your server (which won't necessarily
be /dev/sda1 then of course).

-- 
Chris Green