Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fsck

[Philip Tellis]

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to check my hdd for bad sectors. If I run fsck from root, it
> gives me a warning message stating that fsck can damage the file system.
> Can you guys suggest me a better and the right measures for hdd
> maintenance in Linux ?

What you should do, is remount the root file system readonly:

mount -o remount,ro /

Then run fsck.

Philip


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