On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:03 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > > Yeah, I thought that was probably the case. Is there any way I can > boot the machine and skip fsck running automatically, try to mount the > drive and salvage some of the data to another drive? (I should point > out my system drive is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective > drive, its my 180G data drive thats screwed.) > > Rob >
If you already have it booted up, I believe that tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 <device> will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in the future. I don't know of a way to disable it on the fly during bootup, but that probably just means I haven't heard of it. Now's another great time to mention knoppix.org -- if you boot off the CD, it shouldn't try to do anything with your drives without asking you first. -- monique Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please don't email me directly. I will most likely see your post before I read your mail, anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
