ehh,,, the kernel is read into memory, then the disk unmounted? On Wednesday 15 August 2001 11:02, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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 :-) ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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