On Wednesday, January 17, 2007 @ 8:27 PM, Sunny wrote: >On 1/17/07, Greg Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to try running a manual fsck on my main partition. I booted into >> runlevel 3 and tried "umount /dev/hda2" but got "device is busy". I'm >> thinking that I should be trying to unmount the filesystem itself, not the >> device, but don't know how to figure out what that is (and I can't remember >> a command that would show the filesystem name associated with the device). >> Then again, maybe I'm way off base here. Anyway, I just need to be able to >> unmount the filesystem so I can run fsck on it. Can someone tell me what to >> enter to do the unmount? >> >> Thanks, >> Greg Wallace >>
>IO did not see dat you started a new thread, so I answered in the >other one. So, the solution is to boot either from the install media >(cd/dvd) and select maintenance mode, or boot from knoppix, damn small >linux, etc. >-- >Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Thanks. I'll try maintenance mode from the installation DVD. Greg W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
