On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > 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)... You have to be in single-user mode. Do 'telinit 1' to accomplish that and then 'telinit 3' to get back. You can then run e2fsck -f to check the filesystem.