Re: validating root filesystem ...

[David Brown <davidb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:40:38PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:53:28PM -0800, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> 
> >    How should one check or repair a root file system?
> 
> my suggestion is have an small alternate root to boot to, failing that
> boot from a CD or USB token

I've had good results with R.I.P. Linux
<http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/>

So far it has booted on every machine I've tried it on.  It can boot from
CD or USB drive, and runs out of ramdisk.  It includes all of the xfs
tools, so I've even used it when I pushed everything off of ext3 and
brought it back into xfs.

Dave