On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

>> If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a
>> rescue disk to do so - but I'm assuming that it's not the root (/)
>> filesystem, or you wouldn't have got this far.
>>   
> It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'?

It could impede its functioning if anything at all is written to the disk 
while it is being checked.  I can imagine it resulting in everything from 
nothing to minor problems to indescribable chaos.

Don't go there if you value your data.

-- hendrik


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