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Drop to single user mode. Remount it readonly. Run fsck. Or create
boot disks and use those to run fsck from.
mount -n -o remount,ro /
Read thru your init scripts. Your system does this for you when you
boot up. Thats why sometimes you'll see something to the effect of
"maximal mount count reached. Check forced" before it mounts the
file systems read/write. Read the BootPrompt-HOWTO and the
Bootdisk-HOWTO for other tips and more verbose explanations.
J.
So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end, when is my work done?
Why am I lone and why do I feel
that I carry a sword through a battlefield?
--VNV Nation
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
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> OK, lets take a simple example: we have / (root) type ext2 and /boot type
> ext2. Let's say we want to check / (root). How do we run e2fsck on these
> filesystems when we are booted?
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> mortis@voicenet.com on 10/04/99 09:55:02 AM
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> Please respond to plug@lists.nothinbut.net
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> Subject: Re: [Plug] Scandisk
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> You can use fsck -- specificly e2fsck. File systems check. One thing
> to keep in mind is to not have the file system mounted when you do this...
> modifying a file system while you are checking it is like russian roulette.
> k
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> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Tom Joyce wrote:
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> > This past weekend a fuse blew and power to my system was lost. On reboot
> a message came up as it was mounting the drives and said something to the
> effect system was not shutdown correctly check forced. It went through and
> fixed the drives and rebooted with no problem. Now I was wondering, How do
> I check drives for errors comparable to scandisk in windows?
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> > Tom
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