Hi 

Following my last Email to the group Colin suggested a few things to check 
out my failing machine, but I am having problems.

Colin suggested running fsck on all my partitions but I keep getting error's 
and warnings that are worrying.  The filesystem is ext3.

When I try and fsck my root partition it says

Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda3 is mounted.

WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)?

I choose no and tried 

umount /dev/hda3
it says:        device or resource busy.

Is this the right version of fsck (it mentions EXT2 above)? I read the man 
pages and think that this does not matter as it is a wrapper programme.

How can I unmount my root filesystem to run fsck?

Sorry is these questions are a bit simplistic :)

Cheers 
Mike




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