Whoops. Exactly right. You should umount the partition before doing an fsck. Mea culpa.
-- Nathan Norman : Hostmaster CFNI : [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : :> I believe it's 'e2fsck -f', which "forces" an fsck even if it seems :> clean. : :I'm not certain, but I think it's unwise to run this command on a mounted :filesystem. I usually run it from a rescue root disk if it's for my :system's root partition. : :-- :Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada :P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? :e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .