Re: e2fsck problem/interpretation

Tam wrote:
Hi group,

I have three problems relating to using e2fsck (which I haven't used
before).

The first is an easy one. How do I run e2fsck on the drive with the OS
on? Ive been told not to do it to a mounted file system (thank you
Jerry) so how do I scan the drive (which is sda, see later in this
post) whilst its running/mounted (which it obviously must be in order
to boot).

This may depend on the distribution that you're using. For at least
some systems, 'touch /forcefsck && reboot' will do it.


The second and third problems are related to the results of running
e2fsck (with the -n switch) on two other drives. I am getting
differing results from both so was wondering if I could get some
assistance interpreting what is going on.
<snip>

e2fcsk -y /dev/sdb1 will fix your your first problem. For the
second one you'll need to confirm that /dev/sdc2 actually has an
efs file system on it. Are you sure that it isn't a container
for an LVM volume?

Doug
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