Re: e2fsck w/out boot?
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: Hi there,
:
: I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the
: machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run
: e2fsck & remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do
: the first step (the system says / is busy)...
Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root
read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition?
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