Checking of HDD
 

I have recently came across a problem whereby my keyboard and Mouse would not work in KDE as a result i had to reboot the machine manually by pressing the reset button on my pc.

After the problem was fixed i had noticed that my hdd was reading a lot and was slowing down my daily tasks. I ran fsck -a as root and found that my Filesystem is NOT clean so i switched to single user with telinit s and ran fsck -a and was prompted with this message

Partition /dev/hda1 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it

Shouldnt fsck be able to check and fix my hdd in single user mode? Are there any steps that i might have missed?
I am running on slackware 10.2, an 80 gig ide hdd and kernel 2.4 any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

Just boot system as single user from the boot prompt and run fsck -a /dev/hda1. Note that you should change the device to the file system you want to repair. You should 'man fsck' to get all the goodies.

you can only 'fsck' a drive that is read-only.