On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:27:18PM +0530, Ajay wrote: > > Today my Debian Potato box crashed!!! > > Upon rebooting, it gave the expected error messages and dropped > me into a shell. I ran fsck on the partition, fixed the errors > and then rebooted the system. Again it gave the same messages, > viz., the partition was not umounted properly, etc., and then I > had to repeat the whole procedure, but to no avail. Obviously > the changes, corrections, etc., were not being saved. > > What should I have done in this situation? I'd used RH earlier > and I often used this procedure to solve the problem, but Deb's > different? > > This being a multi-boot system - both Deb and RH present - I > finally booted into RH and fsck'ed the Deb partition and finally > managed to solve the problem. But whats' the correct procedure? > > Cordially > > Ajay Shankar > ---end quoted text---
You cannot successfully do a fsck or e2fsck on a mounted partition. You have actually done the correct thing. You need to go through a rescue disk/ alternate OS (if available, as in your case) and do a fsck on the unmounted partition ... This is where single floppy distros like tomsrtbt and alfa linux come handy. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Ctrl+Alt+Del key bindings (#1) LOST #012 To change the bindings of ctrl+alt+del to "shutdown -h now", instead of "shutdown -r now", edit /etc/inittab, and change -r to -h ... The altered line should look something like this ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
