[PLUG] Backup Error: Need Advice
Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Mar 21 16:27:41 UTC 2006
Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Terror. Well at least concern. I've seen this happen as a disk
> started to fail. My first moves have been to restart the system;
> sometimes by hitting the power or rest button; forcing it to see an
> unclean shutdown and allowing you to check the partitions. ( I'm sure
> there is some really-cool/total-sysadmin method to do this but I like
> low-hanging fruit and it has worked on almost every distribution I've
> tried. )
I think I prefer Jon's suggestion of running fsck from a CD, but here's
a way to run fsck on an idle system. I don't think an unclean shutdown
is a good idea. The only exception I can think of is if you just
entered something liked rm -f /.
Logout from any X11 session.
Login as root on a vt.
#telinit s #go to single user mode
run fsck
galen
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