[NTLUG:Discuss] fsck while the system is running

[Kevin Brannen]

Ian Alexander wrote:
> 
> I believe you'll have to unmount the filesystem in question (assuming it's
> not the root) before you run e2fsck on it.  You won't have to shutdown (ie
...

Just in case it is the root partition, after coming up in Single-user
mode, remount root in "ro" mode then you can fsck that too.  As Ted O.
says, if you don't, you might get lucky, or you might be very sorry.

HTH,
Kevin