[nmglug] how bad is this,

[Bob Knight]

Read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983. It may help...

Cheers (and good luck),
Bob

Andres Paglayan wrote:

> 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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