[nylug-talk] fsck chestnut

[Nadav Mavor]

p.s
 fsck.ext3 -c -f /dev/hdX

On 10/17/06, Nadav Mavor <nadav.mavor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> use the -c to find  any  bad  block
>
> On 10/17/06, matt black <linuxmania1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1. the data on this HD is backed up regularly so we're ok there.
> >
> > 2. was really hoping there was a preferred solution beyond the obvious
> > fsck
> > off a live cd, which just doesn't seem like it should be the best way,
> > we
> > did try it and we got:
> >
> > 3. running fsck -rf from the live cd says its clean, except for 1.7%
> > noncontiguous files.
> > clearly of course its not a clean HD, according to dmesg, so what's our
> > next
> > step to maintaining this system?
> >
> > 4. Tried Alex's suggestion (boot into single) which sounded more like
> > what
> > we were looking for, but, after booting into single mode ("root=/hda1 ro
> > single") and then trying to fsck the drive,
> > it still complains that its mounted (which of course it is, just
> > read-only)
> >
> > not sure exactly how to fsck this drive from single user mode, obviously
> > it
> > has to be mounted to run, even in single user.
> >
> > data is safe, but we seem to be missing an obvious step in fixing the
> > filesystem.
> >
> > appreciatively,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: alex at pilosoft.com
> > >Reply-To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org >
> > >To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] fsck chestnut
> > >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > >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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