On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Mike wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jeff Williamson wrote:
>
> > Subject pretty much sez it.
> > Trying to run e2fsck on /dev/hda but need to unmount it first, but how?
> >
> > Already booted from startup diskette, but keep getting "device busy" error.
There have been a lot of responses in this thread, however, one question
apparently has not been asked. What exactly is the "startup diskette"
mentioned? If it is a single diskette it probably mounts /dev/hda<n>
automatically, and the only copy of fsck is on the file system you want
to fsck. A typical rescue system requires two diskettes--one for
the kernel and one to load programs into the ramdisk that is actually
mounted as root. If this is used, /dev/hda<n> will not be automatically
mounted and fsck may be run on it. Of course, fsck must be in the ramdisk
as part of the rescue system.
Good Luck,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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