Re: Urgent Help needed please
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:49:24PM +0000, Andy Spiegl wrote:
>
> > If you can't umount it, take the system to
> > single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck.
> That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote
> access to this machine.
>
Yeah, I somehow missed the 'remote access' bit in your previous mail :-(
> > 2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
> > most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
> > presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If
> > this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed. So:
> > # touch /forcefsck
> > # shutdown -r now
> > Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details.
> Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint.
You're welcome. I remembered after the fact that there's an equivalent
/fastboot for booting without checks, too.
miket
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