Also... a good trick is if you have a box that you take down alot of times (read:
dual-boot or laptop), you can stagger the mount count for each drive partition... that
way, when you boot, you don't have to wait for all
the partitions to be fsck-ed, you get a little on each boot. Just a little geek trick.
--Mike
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> Can anyone tell me an easy way to fsck my root? Conditions: I don't want to use a
>floppy disk or rescue CD. Is there a way to tell the system that the / partition is
>'dirty' and needs to be fscked on the next boot?
>
> Can anyone tell me how to check a drive regardless of the partition(s) on it? IE,
>something that checks closer to a hardware level.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
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