Re: How to fsck read-only-mounted root filesystem?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:40 5-12-2001 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Simon Matter wrote:
> > Dan Hollis schrieb:
> > > How can one xfs_check/xfs_repair a root filesystem?
> > Boot from a bootable CD and perform the repair on the unmounted
> > filesystem.
> > Have a look at this http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl
>
> Seems a bit ridiculous to have to install a CDrom just to fsck the root
> filesystem.
Install what? You don't install anything. You just boot from the CD, fix 
stuff and then reboot.
It takes a bit more time yes, but 5 minutes at most of the corruption is 
not serious.

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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.