[PLUG] how to e2fsck without keeping /' mounted?

[Richard Langis]

What about dropping down to single-user mode, mounting / read-only and 
running fsck?

No loss of uptime that way.  ;)

-R

AthlonRob wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:21, Matt King wrote:
> 
>>Boot with a floppy or cd-rom and check it that way.  tomsrtbt
>><http://www.toms.net/rb/> comes to mind.  That way you won't mount any of
>>your disk partitions.
> 
> 
> if you touch /etc/forcefsck and reboot, at least Slackware will check
> the root partition.
> 
> Don't the other guys (RH, Debian, etc) do that?
> 
> No need to use a floppy or CD or something.  :-)
> 

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