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Re: forcing a fsck of /



 On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:40:30PM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> I want to force a file system check of my root partition. The reason 
> being, that my system froze, and I had to hit the reset switch. The 
> system booted right up, using the file system journaling to recover the 
> root partition, but I'd like to be for cirtain the file system is OK. 

You should be able to do it by booting single user with / mounted read-only. 
There's no need for a boot CD. 

Since the system boots okay, and you're just doing this as a precaution, 
you can run fsck with -n (depending on the actual filesystem type) against 
a mounted volume and it will report but not repair problems.  If it comes 
back clean, then you don't have to do the shutdown-boot single-fsck dance. 

-b 

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