Normally you would boot from a rescue floppy for such maintenance
activities and mount your filesystem read only. I haven't had to do
this in a long time but it also seems to me that you can boot to single
user and remount root as read only.
FizzyPop wrote:
>
> I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I
> figure
> it's all bad blocks. I ran "fsck /dev/hda2" but it only seems to do a
> cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed
> Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after presumably correcting them.
> So I was wondering what the utility was to thouroughly check all of the HD
> for errors.
> Also, I've been told not to run disk checks while the HD is mounted,
> how
> can I load linux sans mounting the HD? does it work if I boot from a
> floppy?
>
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