Jean-Daniel PAUGET wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I wanted to run fsck -A to see what was going on. I got a message saying that
> it's dangerous to run this on a mounted file system, so I stopped. Should I
> have continued?
>
> no, it's really a bad idea to process a file system while in use.
You can do that, if you remount the file system to be read-only.
to do so, do:
mount /dev/hda1 / -o ro, remount
, assuming that / is on /dev/hda1
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