Re: fsck on a mounted disk?
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ron Farrer wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to
> run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only
> accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior &
> keyboard, is there a way to run fsck safely, yet remotely, on a mounted
> partition (the disk only has one: root) without causing any (further)
> damage?
>
> TIA,
> Ron
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> Email: <rbf@farrer.net> or <rbf@debian.org>
Assuming this is ext2 you can do something like
tune2fs -i 1 /dev/hda and reboot and it will fsck on the reboot
However there is now way you can do a fsck live unless you can get it to
remount the rootfs read only and even then I don't think it will let you
Rgds
Rus
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