In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Nah. It's not a good idea to use "mount -a" before fsck. The safest
> thing you can do if you haven't tinkered with the sizes and/or order
> of the partitions is to run:
>
> # fsck -p && mount -u / && mount -va
I disagree. If the file systems were dismounted cleanly, then "fsck -p"
just verifies that, and does nothing. If they haven't dismounted
cleanly, then mount won't mount the file systems. Running "fsck -p"
just insures that the file systems will mount - unless they are really
badly damaged. You won't hurt anything if you skip the "fsck -p", you
just may have to run it then rerun the mount.
<mike
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