> Jeremy Herbison wrote:
> > Except that you typically run fsck on an unmounted disk, so a fsck
> binary
> > on the damaged partition isn't going to help you, whether it is linked
> to
> > other libraries or not.
>
> So tell me how you run fsck on your root filesystem at startup if you
> don't mount the disk at all? In the LFS bootscripts, when a system file
> check is required at boot, the root partition is mounted read-only.
>
> "mount -n -o remount,ro / >/dev/null"
>
> If the script determines that it should run fsck on the root partition,
> the following line is run:
>
> "fsck ${options} -a -A -C -T 2>/dev/null"
>
> --
> JH
Okay, but in the event that it finds a problem, you'll still need a recovery
disk of some sort. Or, if it can't run fsck at all because fsck is linked to
a damaged .so, you'll know there is a problem anyhow and you'll STILL need
a recovery disk with a different fsck binary :)
Jeremy
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