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Originally Posted by brmccarty
Okay I was mistaken. sda4 is my /home partition. Why does it tell me to do this and then tell me it will damage my file system when I try?
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You need to run it, but the volume needs to be offline. If you reboot and log in as root, you might be able to umount /home and then check the volume with something like this:
fsck -a -v /dev/sda4
Otherwise, you can boot a Slackware install CD/DVD and run it from there. Depending on the level of paranoia e2fsck has about your filesystem, you might need other options to force the check to run... the important thing is that you can't run fsck on a mounted filesystem because that's a moving target and can pretty much scramble things.