[nylug-talk] fsck chestnut

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, matt black wrote:

> Classic question, how do you fsck a mounted partition. Googling found
> some really bad advice but not the basic solution to this problem:

a) you don't fsck a mounted partition. Boot system singleuser and then 
fsck.

b) your drive is about to die. Make backup while you can.


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