On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 07:34 -0700, Miles Beck wrote: > /dev/ataraid/d0p9 is my /var partition. Doing fsck while the partition is > mounted brings up a nice big warning that doing it in this manner may really > hose your file system. Would I be able to boot with the Debian cd and run this > manually with the partition unmounted? > > I also checked dmesg and it showed this: > > EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended > > Was e2fsck what you meant instead of fsck? I did not see a "-y" option for fsck. > > Quoting "der.hans" : > > > I think you want to run: > > > > fsck -y /dev/ataraid/d0p9 > > ---- Yes, if the fstype for /var/ is ext2 or ext3, e2fsck is what you should run. You may need to add -f for ext3 as it forces the check where an ext3 filesystem is journaled and you may wish to add the -c for bad block check and lastly, it is possible that e2fsck is just a link to fsck. The /var/partition is probably fixable while booted, you would only need to umount /var first but it would likely be better to do that from runlevel 1 so the sequence would probably be something like... init 1 umount /var e2fsck -fy /dev/ataraid/d0p9 mount /var init 2 (or whatever your normal runlevel would be) Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss