On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: : Hi there, : : I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the : machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run : e2fsck & remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do : the first step (the system says / is busy)...
Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
