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["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, January 18, 2007 @ 7:56 AM, Kenneth Schneider wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 20:49 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 17, 2007 @ 8:34 PM, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
>> 
>> >On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:15, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> >> I want to try running a manual fsck on my main partition.

>Are you talking about /, the root partition? If so it cannot be checked
>while the system is running, you need to boot the DVD and use rescue
>system.

Yeah, that's what other people told me and that's what I did.
Interestingly, Carlos Robinson just sent out a note that made it sound like
you could also do it if you booted to runlevel 1, but maybe I misinterpreted
what he was saying.

>-- 
>Ken Schneider
>UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

Greg W


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