In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Guilherme Soares Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)...
Go to single user mode ("shutdown now", no flags).
> The reason I ask that is because earlier today X aborted complaining
>of (got it from syslog):
>
>Aug 20 09:56:26 groo kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 04000000
This doesn't have anything to do with the filesystem. It means that
something in the virtual memory system is messed up. This can be caused
by a kernel bug or by bad hardware (bad RAM mostly, overclocking, or
wrong BIOS settings).
Mike.
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