It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:07:56 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: One small question then: how would you go about fsck-ing the partition that has the fsck binary on it? You can't run it when it is not mounted, and you can't run it when it's mounted. Would cp-ing the program be the solution? Paul >> The procedure I gave, and for which I believe the question conserned, >> was to be used during boot when the auto fsck is unable to complete >> and the sysetm request that a manual fsck be run. >> If run at this time no partition has has yet been mounted so using >> an unmount command would be pointless and unnecessary. > >Very true. I just thought I should add that disclaimer just in case someone >wanted to fsck a mounted filesystem :-) -- To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something. -Charlotte Perkins Gilman http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
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