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For some reason fsck has the wrong data stored in /etc/fstab for 2 of my drives (compare list of dev by UUID to the fstab and you will see the discrepancies).This of course causes an error an puts me into a shell when trying to boot. Ubuntu Linux still will load fine if Ctrl +D is pressed though. Any suggestions are appreciated. I don't wan't to have to re-format and re-install if at all possible. Thanks!!

ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 2008-01-28 16:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2008-01-28 11:07 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 16:08 3EAF-084E -> ../../sdb6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 412E-4B31 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 4AFC7FF3FC7FD7A1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 5291d416-6125-4664-b9cb-494ff88f8eff -> ../../sdc2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 5ad0559e-e9a4-11d8-993d-d462dee94e6c -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 62f4a2fa-7b9d-45ef-a7c0-f937877c2744 -> ../../sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 6648256F48253EE5 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 861CC4531CC44043 -> ../../sdc4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 e228feb9-e0f0-47c3-9499-95ea4411e313 -> ../../sdc5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-01-28 11:07 faf02063-57fb-4b13-aa04-f89b6a75ffe9 -> ../../sda4

/dev/fstab

# /dev/sdc1
UUID=62f4a2fa-7b9d-45ef-a7c0-f937877c2744 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4AFC7FF3FC7FD7A1 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=5ad0559e-e9a4-11d8-993d-d462dee94e6c /media/sda3 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda4
UUID=faf02063-57fb-4b13-aa04-f89b6a75ffe9 /media/sda4 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=412E-4B31 /media/sda5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=6648256F48253EE5 /media/sdb1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=3EAF-084E /media/sdb5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb6
UUID=3EAF-084E /media/sdb6 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdc5
UUID=e228feb9-e0f0-47c3-9499-95ea4411e313 /sg1 ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdc2
UUID=5291d416-6125-4664-b9cb-494ff88f8eff none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
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I got the same problem edubuntue 7.10
so I ve changed some the setting on /etc/fstab file
by add 0 instade of 1 at the the end of every line
1- make back up
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.save
2- update
sudo nano /etc/fstab

then press Ctrl+X to save the file

Thanks for your help everyone. But I still need one of the drives that it is throwing an error on. Is there a way I can reformat that particular partition from within Ubuntu to get it to mount? Thanks

Change all the last column entries from 1 to 0 for the partitions with ntfs.

As far as I know, Ubuntu tries to run fsck on all the partitions on the disk. Which is not necessary. If we change all the entries to 0, then whenever it boots, it will not check the partition.

As far as mounting is concerned, it will be able to mount the ntfs partitions even if the above thing is done.

ricc