Then I would suggest that you reboot, then change to single user mode, remount the filesystem read-only and start your check.
The second suggestion that I have would be to search the rc scripts and find out where mount is called to remount the fs read/write and stuff a bash command right before it. You should get a shell to a single user mode gentoo system w/ the fs mounted read-only. You may not want to use the reiser fs tools if they are on the partition that you intend to play with. (Try copying them to a floppy or something). The file /forcefsck is searched for with the rc scripts which then call the fsck program. You could adjust the appropriate script (/etc/init.d/checkroot -- line 20) to change the fsck command to something more thorough for your setup. It seems that the full fsck should be used there anyway; if someone touches that file then they obviously wanted to perform a check and, like you, probably not just a cursory search. Perhaps a bug-report/patch for the script. On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 08:53 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: > > touch /forcefsck > > reboot > > In case of reiserfs, only the "light" checks are performed. I'd like to > have a full check! since the reiserfs is damaged. > -- boater -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
