Re: fsck on root directory without rebooting

[David A. Bandel]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> I would like to run fsck on my root directory without having to reboot.
> Could someone tell me if this is possible and if so, how do do it?
> Thanks,
> Joel

Yes.  First change to runlevel 1:
init 1
then umount all partitions:
umount -a
then remount the root partition ro:
mount -n -o remount,ro /

run fsck:
fsck -f /dev/root (or whatever your root partition is, sometimes
/dev/root is linked to it)

To get back, do the above in reverse order:
mount -n -o remount,rw /
mount -a
init 5

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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