Andrew Fraser DBA

sda: sense key Recovered Error linux fsck forcefsck

Errors in /var/log/messages:

kernel: Current sda: sense key Recovered Error
kernel: Additional sense: Failure prediction threshold exceeded
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda9) in ext3_setattr: Journal has aborted
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda9) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

Fix with (requires reboot + can be slow):

fsck.ext3 -f -y /dev/sda9

To identify that name /dev/sda9 I used:

fdisk -l
e2label /dev/sda9

Following this, force a full fsck to double check everything with:

touch /forcefsck
reboot

The /forcefsck file is removed automatically post reboot.

If that doesn’t fix the problem – and maybe even if it does, for safety – replace the hard disk.