Re: [SLE] How do I use fsck????

From: Jerry Feldman (gaf_at_blu.org)
Date: 11/02/03

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    On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 14:24:41 -0800
    Tom Nielsen <tom@neuro-logic.com> wrote:

    > I just got 9.0 loaded and everything right where I wanted it when I
    > just had to screw around and cause a problem.
    >
    > I was trying to transfer information from my CF card reader and I
    > couldn't get it to stop so I hit the reset button on my computer. Ya,
    > I know it was stupid, but something was locked up and I didn't know
    > what. Well, upon rebooting, I had a ton of errors, which would be
    > expected, including not being able to get my reiserfs systems mounted.
    > / and /home wouldn't mount and during bootup, I got a message saying
    > it couldn't fsck and that I would have to do it manually. I tried
    > tweaking and playing and finally got to KDE. The problem was that it
    > would reboot itself have way through loading. I managed to get into
    > Gnome just fine.
    >
    > So, what is the correct way to fsck my / and /home partitions? I read
    > the man page but it made about as much sense to me as reading it in a
    > foreign language. So, any help would be great!!
    fsck will run automatically when you transition from single to
    multi-user mode during bootup. Or, you can run it manually. You must be
    in single user mode to fsck root, AND the root file system must be
    mounted read-only. SuSE generally does this for you when you either boot
    up into run level 1 or change to run level 1 from other run levels.

    The other file systems must be unmounted. If you try to run fsck on a rw
    root or mounted file system, you can do bad things.

    Here isi what I generally use:
    fsck -fsy /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2
    The options are:
    f == force
    s == serial (in other words run one at a time).
    y == answere yes to all questions (can be dangerous).

    Many of the options are file system specific (such as ext2 or reiserfs),
    but this is reasonably generic.

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    Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
    Boston Linux and Unix user group
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