[WBEL-users] How to run e2fsck on the root file system

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Wed Mar 30 16:47:04 CST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:34 -0800, Shapiro, Mark wrote:
> It appears that I have one or more bad blocks on my root files system
> on one of my machines running whitebox 3.0.
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> When I run e2fsck /dev/hda5, I get a warning that it is very dangerous
> to run e2fsck on a mounted file system.
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> However, I don’t believe it’s possible to unmount /.
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> Is there a safe way to bring the system up so that I can run e2fsck
> on /.
> 

boot from a CD-1 and use:

linux rescue
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