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[Darrell Cormier <linuxdev@xxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:

> On Friday 06 June 2003 23.16, Darrell Cormier wrote:
>  
>
> > How can I perform an xfs_repair on /dev/hda4 (i.e. /)?  What is the
> > proper procedure for doing this?
> >    
>
> Standard procedure for repairing the root file system I think is to boot from 
> the rescue system on the suse CD. That will boot up into a system running 
> with / on a ram disk, so the real hard drive is unmounted.
>
> There could be other ways I guess, but that's the way I always do it
>  
Thanks Anders.  That did the trick. 

Darrell