On Sunday 14 April 2002 11:01 pm, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:44 pm, ben wrote: > > On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:40 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > hi ya axacheng > > > > > > > fileserver:/# e2fsck -v -y /dev/hda > > > > bash: /sbin/e2fsck: Input/output error > > > > > > you cannot run e2fsck on a "disk"... you need to run e2fsck on > > > ext2 partitions > > > e2fsck /dev/hda1 > > > e2fsck /dev/hda2 ... > > > > > > NOTE... do NOT run e2sck on your mounted "root partition" > > > ( read the warnings you would be getting especially root > > > partition... > > > > > > ( ie... dont do -v -y in your example.... or you'd > > > ( be creating major problems on your machines > > > > > > the error messages may be real or self-induced mis-leading errors... > > > > > > if you do NOT have any of those seek errors in your logs, than > > > i'd not worry about your disk yet ... > > > > > > am assuming that there are no such warnings other than > > > on Mar 15 03:09.... which is exactly the same time you rand the > > > erroneous e2fsck command > > > > > > if yu do have tons of these error at all times of the day and nights > > > than you have a dying disks... > > > - copy off all your data to a new backup disks > > > > > > - start replacing the ide cables and wiggle it and see > > > if there is good connections or shorts or other whacky stuff > > > > 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. > > > > ben > > Greetings Ben: > > I think 'boot' is the keyword, where the root file system has yet to be > mounted. > yeah, alvin offered some info on that. the question that remains is what is the command to run a check on a mounted system? sorry, i haven't been following the thread. somone may have answered this already.
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