On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:02 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you > wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot > from (or chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do > fscks work on boot? When an fsck is needed at bootup, it is run > _before_ the partiton is mounted. I believe the answer might be fsck is run on mounted partitions. They're just mounted read only. BUT I don't really know, and I haven't used ext2 or need e2fsck on any partitions for a long time. Still it's a good question and sure made me curious. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
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