Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do
it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to)
another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on boot? When an
fsck is needed at bootup, it is run _before_ the partiton is mounted.
This brings up another question. How is the kernel loaded when the filesystem
it is on hasn't been mounted yet? I assume that the principle would be the
same as with the fsck situation above. This question doesn't only apply to
Linux, but to all kernels.
Hmmm...
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:50, Paul wrote:
> It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:07:56 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> One small question then: how would you go about fsck-ing the partition that
> has the fsck binary on it? You can't run it when it is not mounted, and you
> can't run it when it's mounted.
> Would cp-ing the program be the solution?
> Paul
>
> >> 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.
> >
> >Very true. I just thought I should add that disclaimer just in case
> > someone wanted to fsck a mounted filesystem :-)
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