On Wed 31 Jan 2007 14:51:53 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Ah. I didn't appreciate your use of the words 'rescue disk' implied an > all-in-ram system, like tom's root and boot or the BGrescue floppy disks.
I don't know whether the term "rescue disk" is generally understood to mean all-in-ram, I have some doubts about it. However the particular one mentioned is deliberately designed that way, and therefore complements the toolbox nicely. I have had many situations over the years where I *needed* the drive free. > Some versions of fsck assume that if there are no options then the user wants > all ext2 partitions checked. Madness imho, My man page says lacking any options, fsck will go through /etc/fstab and check everything in the order in which it appears there. Makes sense. > No. Merely assuming that the root filesystem containing the fsck utilities is > on a different partition from the one which needs repair. Rather widesweeping assumption. Better not make it, when you don't know the partition layout, which vary widely and for good reason. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
