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toojays
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Joined: 21 Jul 2002
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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 Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:09 am Post subject: how to invoke e2fsck? |
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When my ext3 partitions mount on boot, the following is written to dmesg:
| Code: | | EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended |
I tried to boot into single user mode in order to unmount some partitions and check them, but it wouldn't let me unmount some (e.g. /var, /usr, obviously /). What is the procedure when you want to run e2fsck on a partition which normally would be mounted? |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| One way is to boot from the install CD. This works well. You can also drop into single user mode during boot, but I feel safer doing disk maintenance from a rescue/install CD. |
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rac
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Joined: 30 May 2002
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Location: Japanifornia
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:42 am Post subject: |
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While I agree with Naan Yaar that the easiest way is to be booted from a different partition all together, you should be able to remount any partition (even /) read-only in single-user mode to do maintenance on it. Don't unmount it: just remount it read-only.
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