Hi
The trick is to go to single user mode and if the filesystem is not / you
can just unmount it and run fsck on it.
Otherwise you will have to remount it read only with
mount -o ro,remount /
Then you can run fsck on it safely and it won't complain about damage.
Jeff
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Fikret Can wrote:
> hello everybody,
>
> The following error is displayed on the console;
>
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext2-new block: free blocks count
> corrupted for block group 9
>
> I know it is related to "fsck.ext2". My question arises, when fsck is run on an
>mounted fs, ext2.fsck /dev/hda1, it warns that severe damage may occur. What can i do
>after reboot to put Linux in maintanence mode and run fsck on an unmounted fs.
> Also, would it help putting the machine in init-level 1.
>
> Thanks in advance.
k
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