I was doing a search of directories to see the sizes, and had some messages
come up about Structure needs cleaning?
My original solution didn't work so well.
Files where in the /var/lib/yum/yumdb directory and the latest one was from
2016.
Since it was part of the / (root) partition /dev/sda2, I just did the
touch /forcefsck and figured the reboot would then have it run a check on the
disk.
The machine rebooted, and did the check, but failed at about 60+% and just
dumped to a limited command prompt.
Was able to fix the problem, by booting to my g4l kernel that loads in ram
from the grub menu. Was able to run fsck -f /dev/sda2 and it reported the
errors on these files in the /var/lib/yum/yumdb directory.
Reboot, and machine came up fine.
Had a number of entries and the lost+found.
So, question.
1. Why wouldn't the boot fsck fix the problem without dumping to a command
prompt?
2. Have a notebook that also has the fedora 28, but it was a clean install. It
doesn't even have the /var/lib/yum/yumdb directory. So, am assumming that
this was left over from system from serveral upgrades ago.
3. Other than booting from another liveos type setup, is there a way to fix this
kind of error.
Machine has been rebooted, but have never seen the error of Structure
needing cleaning before.
Thanks for any info.
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