On Tuesday 15 March 2005 04:52 am, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
**Never** fsck a mounted partition.
Doh! <slaps head> Of course I know that, Darryl, and my apologies to Kastos. This embarrassing little instinct "bites me" in the "arse" *every single time*! Here's how it goes: a) I mount the filesystem b) I fsck (or variant) it c) I see the following: WARNING!!! Running _<fsck et al>_ on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? d) I slap my head in a "Doh!" moment and type "n" for "no". e) I umount the filesystem f) I proceed, vowing to never do that again. g) lather, rinse, repeat - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----