[nylug-talk] fsck chestnut

[Miguel González Castaños]

matt black escribió:
> Classic question, how do you fsck a mounted partition. Googling found 
> some really bad advice but not the basic solution to this problem:
>
> We have a single partition installation that dmesg has 100 lines of 
> errors for (appended below)
> And here is the output of fsck -n:
>
>
> Block bitmap differences -551496 -551546
> Fix?
>
> Free blocks count wrong for group #16 (19402 counted=19400)
> Fix?
>
> Free blocks count wrong (4184669 counted=4171517)
> Fix?
>
> Free blocks count wrong  2304744 counted=2304483
> Fix?
>
> So the question is how to fix these errorson a single running partition.
>
> sincerely,
>
> Matt
Matt,

  I would boot with a rescue CD (there are several solutions on the 
Internet, rescuecd, etc) and run the fsck program on your partition. 
AFAIK you cannot run fsck on a mounted device
 
  Regards,

  Miguel