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Old 01-02-2006, 09:50 PM   #1
xbill311x
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Running fsck (or e2fsck) on root file system...


Hi all,

All I want to do is check my root partition for errors and fix them, ie scandisk. Here's my df:

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[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
56119596 39049784 14173124 74% /
/dev/hda1 101086 10046 85821 11% /boot
/dev/shm 123848 0 123848 0% /dev/shm
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Would I do this?:

Go to single user mode, remount it ro, run fsck:

root# init 1
root# mount -o remount,ro /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
root# fsck -C /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

Then, when finished:

root# mount -o remount,rw /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
root# init 5

I mean, is that what I should do? I'm not sure...

And what is /dev/shm?

Thanks,

Bill
 
Old 01-02-2006, 10:47 PM   #2
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why not just shutdown -F now
 
Old 01-02-2006, 10:54 PM   #3
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I spose I could do that. Is there a way I can have it write the results to a log so that I could view them?

Thanks

Bill
 
  


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