Fsck drops to a maintenance shell at boot
Issue
- During boot, the system hangs on fsck.
- The machine begins the
Checking Filesystemsstage and stops with the following error:
/dev/mapper/U01: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: [FAILED]
*** An error occured during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- ex3 or ext4 file systems
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