[nmglug] how bad is this,

[Andres Paglayan]

thanks,
will try all that tomorrow, (if there's still a disk)
and let you know

Karl Hegbloom wrote:

>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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