[nmglug] how bad is this,

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 16:29 -0600, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> fsck shows a big warning saying that running it in a mounted drive can
> cause SEVERE damage,
> should I run it anyway?

You should boot to single user mode and run it while the file system is
mounted read only, provided it's a file system that allows this.  Some
file systems (at lease XFS) do not allow a fsck (xfs_repair) to be run
while mounted at all.  In that case you need to boot to a rescue
environment.  (www.sysresccd.org is very good.)

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