[plug] OS chimera revisited

[Steve Grasso]

On Friday 21 December 2001 09:51, Bernard wrote:
[snip]
> Look for a line that says something like:
> /dev/hda5	/		ext2	defaults    0 1
>                ^^^
> where the second part is simply "/". The first part is what you need
> to fsck. So from my line above on my machine, I would type
>
> fsck /dev/hda5

but not while fsck /dev/hda5 is mounted on / as it's likely to be. Running 
fsck on a mounted file system isn't to be recommended. Better to boot from a 
floppy to fsck the root partition.

Regards,
Steve