fsck returns "run manually"
 

Can someone explain what the below is telling me? Reading the man page for fsck leaves more questions than answers.

# fsck -a
fsck 1.36 (05-Feb-2005)
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x303 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 12253568/8323231 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is NOT clean
Partition /dev/hda3 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it
fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3 failed (status 0x10). Run manually!

grizzly:scratch:

Are you trying to run fsck while the system is booted up?

You need to remount the partition read-only "mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda3" -- this should be done from single user mode.

If /dev/hda3 is not your root partition then you can unmount the partition and run fsck on /dev/hda3.

If it is your root partition then you should boot a live CD and run fsck while /dev/hda3 isn't mounted.

You should only run fsck on unmounted partitions.

re: fsck returns "run manually"
 

I apologize for the length of time that has passed since this was originally posted. I found all submissions to be of high value and followed them.

Result - fsck found bad blocks and recommended a new hard drive. Took a while to finance and install the new drive but everything is working fine now.

Again, thanks for the help and I hope each of you sees this message.

Grizzly:D