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Re: [SLE] harddisk failure
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:53:56 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403240550500.4611@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The Tuesday 2004-03-23 at 07:49 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

> I mean this is an option on the shutdown man page so therefore its gotta
> work.

touch /forcefsck
...
reboot

That works on a suse system.

> IT would be a nice thing to force the fsck on reboot but perhaps you are
> going to need to do it the hard way ie boot off the CD, and do the fsck
> before any of the drives are mounted?

It is necesary to do so if there is a problem with the root partition,
specially if it is a reiserfs one.

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson


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