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Re: Advanced fsck?



On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:03:53AM +0000, hadi motamedi wrote:

> /dev/hda3 #fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hda3 But it is returning as "Running
> e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause servere damage" . Can I
> continue this way ? Thank you

You have to run fsck on an unmounted system. If your root partition is
corrupted, then you'll need a Debian boot disk or similar to boot from.
Unless you're running 64-bit, I'd recommend Knoppix.

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