Re: defrag

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@cfni.com>]

Whoops.  Exactly right.  You should umount the partition before doing an
fsck.  Mea culpa.

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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

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:> I believe it's 'e2fsck -f', which "forces" an fsck even if it seems
:> clean.
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:I'm not certain, but I think it's unwise to run this command on a mounted
:filesystem.  I usually run it from a rescue root disk if it's for my
:system's root partition.
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