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Offline Rob

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fsck from live cd
« on: June 23, 2010, 04:40:07 AM »
Would someone explain to me in step by step how to run fsck from the live cd .
 And if I run fsck on a mounted partition I get a warning that it may cause severe filesystem damage ,should I heed this warning?
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Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: fsck from live cd
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 05:11:24 AM »
Yes, you should heed that warning. Before running fsck, run umount -a. This will unmount all your partitions.
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Offline Andy Axnot

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Re: fsck from live cd
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 04:18:10 PM »
rob0917, yes, you should definitely  run umount -a as root before using fsck.

For more information on fsck you should read the man page for it.  Several times, in fact, so that it sinks in.   ;D

You might also search the forum for 'old-polack fsck', as old-polack has written about it a few times here, and there's some interesting reading in those posts.

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