On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> Due to various instabilities on my machine which I cannot identity: but
> possibly due to being overclocked; or instabilities in the fglrx ATI
> driver; or instabilities in ReiserFS, periodically I get some ReiserFS
> corruption. I keep a lot of backups.
>
> For everything besides /, I can unmount then and run fsck on the
> partitions. fsck.reiserfs has a couple of options (--fix-fixable) and
> (--rebuild-tree) that I occasionally need to run.
>
> But I can't even do this at all to /, because it's in use. I don't have
> another linux partition to boot into; and it's probably important to use
> the latest reiserfstools since I always run the latest kernel. Knoppix
> has issues with my hardware.
pick the right partition number
mount -o ro,remount /dev/hda1 /
-- assumes you have enough memory and it wont try to fix
the inodes of the program (reiserfs) you are using to fix the
supposedly bad disk
-- you also risk breaking the / parition too if you're nto
careful, but what the [EMAIL PROTECTED], its only system files
( nothing important :-) that you dont already have it backed up )
-- you did tar zcvf /another_partition/etc.tgz /etc
of the current state BEFORE you play w/ fsck'ing :-)
do your reiserfsck/ext2 checks ..
-- keep your fingers crossed
mount -o rw,remount /dev/hda1 /
mount -av
and yeah... i do it all the time when the machine acts wierd,
since its already acting wiered anyway, nothing loss
and fsck'ing might fix it
have fun
alvin
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