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Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.



Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin:

>> Seems weird - why it is being REmounted instead of just being
>> mounted?
>
>Did you try to run fsck while the filesystem was mounted??? AFAIK it
>then resorts to read only mount and only checks the filesystem and
>this isn´t a safe result in all cases. Running fsck with write access
>on a mounted partition instead is asking for  *a lot of trouble*.

Of course not. I caused to FSck on next boot.

>You need to run fsck from a live distribution. Go to grml.org, dd the 
>suitable GRML iso image to an empty (!) USB stick or one with
>disposable data, boot this and try fsck from there *without* mounting
>the partition. If it says clean, use "-f" option.

Seems it's the same as FS checking at boot time, isn't?


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