From: "Bryan O'Neal" <
Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
> So I was thinking I would just run a quick fsck and see what turned
> up. I can get into single user mode no problem, but I cannot [umount]
> the main partition?
It's pretty much impossible to umount / while the system is running, for
reasons which should be obvious.
> umount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol100 -f
I Think You Meant "mount / -o remount,ro" from single-user. That'll remount /
read-only, at which point you can fsck it. (And which bonehead at Redhat
decided to name VGs and LVs using numbers and camelcase? Use lowercase and
short descriptive names; that makes things much easier when you have to do
maintenance.)
> And yes the drive is encrypted using the red hat / fedora standard
> encryption.
When whole-disk encryption goes wrong, it's a total PITA to fix AFAICT. I'd
put the really sensitive data somewhere like /home or /data , and just encrypt
that partition or LV. That way, when it all goes pear-shaped, you have a
better chance of the stuff in /, /usr, and so forth still being usable. But I
don't need "complete paranoiac"-level security for most of my stuff....
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