On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:49:24PM +0000, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > If you can't umount it, take the system to > > single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck. > That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote > access to this machine. >
Yeah, I somehow missed the 'remote access' bit in your previous mail :-( > > 2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time: > > most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the > > presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If > > this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed. So: > > # touch /forcefsck > > # shutdown -r now > > Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details. > Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint. You're welcome. I remembered after the fact that there's an equivalent /fastboot for booting without checks, too. miket
