On Sunday 14 April 2002 11:00 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > > can you indicate some point of reference to justify that claim? my system > > runs e2fsck by default after every 20 bootups, and i've yet to notice any > > damage due to that. > > sorry for the confusing comment... > > on your box... try to run "e2fsck /dev/hda1" if your / is on /dev/hda1 > > normal bootups is configured to do the right thing in the > right sequence so is NOT an problem .... like a user running > e2fsck on a mounted root partition .,,, a very bad idea... > > but if you umount it first.. than its cool > mount -n -o ro /dev/hda1 - take / offline first > e2fsck /dev/hda1 > mount /dev/hda1 -- put it back online > > and always a good idea to look at any warnings/error messages > spewed out by the system... >
so that e2fsck on an unmounted partition is okay? but to check a mounted partition it should be efsck? or what? sorry, i haven't been following the thread. i'm not sure if it matters but since using the 2.4.17 kernel on my machine , crashes nessecitating the check haven't happened, at all. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
