> If I run 'fsck -n /dev/hda3' I'm told that there are some errors: > > fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > Warning! /dev/hda3 is mounted. > /dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Inode 131170, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. Fix? no
Because it is mounted you're almost guaranteed to encounter errors. Try remounting as read-only if you need to, but... > However, /dev/hda3 is mounted as my root filesystem, so it's not > simply a case of unmounting it to run fsck to fix the errors. > > I've tried booting of the Gentoo boot disk, but when I do that fsck > tells me there are no errors on that partition. > > Why the difference? > How do I fix the errors? > Why does fsck tell me that the drive wasn't cleanly unmounted? (I > always shutdown and restarted the system properly) fsck'ing from the gentoo disk is the best way to go (that's how I always do it). The problem I have sometimes is that I tend to do this, mount the drive to make some changes, then issue the 'reboot' command w/o unmounting it first. When I forget to unmount it then I'll typically see the 'not cleanly unmounted' error (and I say 'duh, well I'll have to do that again...'). Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
