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Re: e2fsck w/out boot?



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.


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