According to Jeff Williamson: While burning my CPU.
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> Subject pretty much sez it.
> Trying to run e2fsck on /dev/hda but need to unmount it first, but how?
Read 'man umount' that will explain why a device is busy.
You can use 'init 1' to get to "singel user mode" the place where you can do
admin work like checking filesystems.
Normaly you must spesify the "device" not just the disk, place the disk
partition number at the end of /dev/hda like for example /dev/hda1 .
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> Already booted from startup diskette, but keep getting "device busy" error.
fsck is called by /etc/fstab (if told to), its the sixth field in an entry.
it should be 1 then after a certain amount of boots fsck will force a check.
If you feel the need has arised to check the device manualy then the device
needs to be read only, in its normal state its read-write.
Read the man pages for 'fsck' and 'e2fsck' before you "force" a check, you
can do more damage than good.
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> Anyone?
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> TIA
> Jeff
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Regards Richard.
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