On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
>
> Bish> You cannot successfully do a fsck or e2fsck on a mounted
> Bish> partition. You have actually done the correct thing. You
> Bish> need to go through a rescue disk/ alternate OS (if
> Bish> available, as in your case) and do a fsck on the unmounted
> Bish> partition ... This is where single floppy distros like
> Bish> tomsrtbt and alfa linux come handy.
>
> Not necessarily. If I get dropped in a single-user shell due to fsck
> failure I just:
>
> mount -oremount,ro -n /
> e2fsck -y /dev/<root disk device>
> reboot
>
> It's perfectly safe and valid to fsck a partition mounted read-only.
>
Raju,
This is from experience. I had faced problems earlier in a
single-user mode even in ro mode. I found, that it is best to
do it from a stand-alone rescue system.This works all the time.
Bish
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