[plug] how to fix unclean dismount :)

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 dynamix at wanet.com.au wrote:

> The Power tripped out yesterday and when it came back and i booted again
> i got as far as mounting the ext filesystem...
> it halted coz it want unmounted cleanly...

The kernel should mount the root fs read-only, then the startup
script will see it is dirty, and do an fsck, before remounting r/w.

If it fails to boot, its time for the rescue disk and a manual fsck.
See fsck(8) and fsck.ext2(8).



Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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