Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a
>> rescue disk to do so - but I'm assuming that it's not the root (/)
>> filesystem, or you wouldn't have got this far.
>>
> It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'?
It could impede its functioning if anything at all is written to the disk
while it is being checked. I can imagine it resulting in everything from
nothing to minor problems to indescribable chaos.
Don't go there if you value your data.
-- hendrik
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