Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it > looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? > > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted situation. I guess, it is even read/write- mounted? Well, I'll cite the man page: ---snip Note that in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted filesystems. The only exception is if the -n option is specified, and - c, -l, or -L options are not specified. However, even if it is safe to do so, the results printed by e2fsck are not valid if the filesystem is mounted. ---snip This is very harsh, I'd say, remounting it ro (read-only), sync'ing it and then doing "e2fsck -n" will give a lot more valid information. In mounted state, esp. read-write, it is pretty normal on a busy system to have these inconsistencies the e2fsck dump showed... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
