On Sunday 02 November 2003 00:00, Tom Nielsen wrote:
From what I understand it's supposed to run automatically, but it told me it couldn't do it and I would have to do so manually. Manually??!! I don't do anything manually. So, at this point, how do I unmount, or set it as read only, to check?
The system does do general file system check automatically during bootup, and in case of ext2/ext3 occasional fsck when needed. However, if they turn out to be erroneous to some extend it doesn't just "automatically" throw away data found, etc. It tells you that the fsck needs your attention and that you must run the fsck manually, to determine what to do with these erros. It should then provide you with a password prompt, after which you are positioned in single user mode. For the purpose of doing, just that fsck the system told you, you need to do. In case you've messed it up, reboot and go single user, by saying 'telinit s', if it doesn't put you there automatically. Then run 'fsck /dev/<disk>', where <disk> is the partition that the system told you earlier, needed manual fsck. hth
Thanks for the commands. As soon as I figure out how to do the read only thing, I'll try it.
Tom