Re: fsck of mounted partitions

[steve]

Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:05, Dale Anderson wrote:
 

boot off the livecd and run fsck WITHOUT the partition mounted .
   

This is vital, you court a real disaster if you attempt to fsck it mounted.
Doing that will really ( euphemistically ) fsck it.
 

There is a -check option which allegedly runs on readonly mounted 
partitions.

Also note that because your device is not mounted you file check a filesystem
by using the device name - NOT the mount point i.e.:-
fsck.reiserfs  /dev/hda6
_NOT_
fsck.reiserfs  /mnt/hda6
 

well, sort of. Selecting the device file makes no difference to whether 
it is mounted or not. There are also some specific tools in addition to 
fsck, like a debugger which can help pinpoint problems with this system. 
Same goes for XFS formatted systems, though I'm heartily sick of them 
screwing up on me ):

--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me,
it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine.
Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
 

Anyone tried reiser4 yet?
Steve.