On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:07, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar > > Dhanapalan > > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:21 AM > > To: Charles A Edwards; Newbie (E-mail) > > Subject: Re: [newbie] fsck > > > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:39, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > > > Robert MacLean > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:16 AM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: [newbie] fsck > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I had a power problem and my machine reset, and I was prompted to > > > > login and use fsck. My question is two fold. What is fsck > > > > (it seems > > > > > > dangerous from the man pages) and secondly what are the > > > > command line > > > > > > options I should use? > > > > > > > > Robert MacLean > > > > > > fsck is simple the abbreviation for "filesystem check" and > > > > performs as does > > > > > ScanDisk, only better. > > > To run it manually login as root and enter: fsck /dev/hdxx, > > > > replacing the > > > > > xx with the proper identifier for the partition you wish to check. > > > > DON'T do this on a mounted filesystem! You can corrupt all > > your data. Use the > > umount command to unmount the filesystem before running an > > fsck. Running a > > manual fsck is rarely necessary, since the system does it > > automatically at > > regular intervals anyway. > > > > -- > > The procedure I gave, and for which I believe the question conserned, > was to be used during boot when the auto fsck is unable to complete > and the sysetm request that a manual fsck be run. > If run at this time no partition has has yet been mounted so using > an unmount command would be pointless and unnecessary. > > Charles (-: Very true. I just thought I should add that disclaimer just in case someone wanted to fsck a mounted filesystem :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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