"-r" is reboot, and the "-F" part is fsck when OS is booting up. These been deprecated for some time now, and my CentOS 6 does not even have the -F parameter and other newer distros as well.
If you want to force fsck at boot time, then as root: # touch /forcefsck and run shutdown afterwards. Note, If you don't have OOB (out of band management), advised not to do it. It could happen that fsck is asking for a yes/no question at the console. regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle < [email protected]> wrote: > Ok it turns out this was me just being silly. The tar xvf extracted it to > /parent_directory/parent_directory/directory, > not /parent_directory/directory, which is why I got confused. But still > would like to learn more about shutdown -rF. Thanks. > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi. Have a server on a US-based host, where I deleted a directory that >> has around 275G worth of files. The objective is to restore that directory >> from a .tar backup. However, after deleting the directory, df didn't >> reflect the expected increase in the available space, and du -m still shows >> the directory, although "ls <directory name>" does not. >> >> Tried rebooting the server - no changes. I cannot unmount the filesystem >> to run fsck as the directory is part of "/" so I need to be physically >> logged on server to go on single user mode. Googling about it people >> suggest shutdown -rF, which I'm keen on trying because I'm stuck anyway as >> the hosting provider cannot help me until I get endorsed by the account >> owner, who won't be available until a few hours from now. Just want to know >> your thoughts about running this command. >> >> Thanks >> >> Johann >> > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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