[NTLUG:Discuss] fsck while the system is running

[David Stokes]

Reeves,

I hope this ain't your root partition.  Unmounting a not root partition
(/home, /usr/local, or the like) and fsck-ing is okay.  Fsck-ing a
running root partition outside of single user mode is risky.  I have
known people do it without problems and several who had to pick up the
pieces. I'd advise you to 'telinit 1', fsck, and go from there.

--- "J. Reeves Hall" <reeves at earthling.net> wrote:
> Is it possible to run fsck (and make changes) on an ext2 partition
> without shutting down? I suspect some inode corruption, but I don't
> want
> to bring the server down.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Reeves
> 
> --
> J. Reeves Hall, Georgia Tech CS Major
> Linux #3 SMP Sat Dec 4 02:21:17 EST 1999
> 3:26pm  up 38 days, 15:06,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.03
> 
> 
> 
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