Typically the fs is mounted read-only while its being checked... Read only in the sense that the os can't write to the partition, but fsck *can* write and fix errors on the device.
Then once the check is finished you re-mount it to read-write mode. mount /dev/hda1 / -o remount,rw -matt On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, James Nickerson wrote: > > > This same problem happened during last weeks Linux InstallFest. Someone > > named Andrew ran a fsck command and fixed the duplicate block problem. How > > do I use the fsck command? Like this? > > > > $ fsck /dev/hda > > How bad is it to fsck mounted partitions? If it's bad, how then do you fsck > the root partition? I assume that's what it does when you tell it to fix > filesystem errors after a scan on bootup, but how to make it do that at will? > thanks, > James > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
