On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zbos...@freemail.hu>wrote:
> 2012-08-29 17:16 keltezéssel, Zdenek Pytela írta: > >> Zoltan Boszormenyi writes: >> >>> How can I run fsck on /home or maybe on / for that matter? >>> I guess booting the Fedora 17 DVD in rescue mode can be >>> used. But how to do it without it? I have used yum to upgrade >>> from F16 (and F14 before) and don't have the DVD at hand. >>> >> The easiest way is to boot to single user mode: in grub either >> choose apropriate menu entry which boots directly into single mode if you >> have it, >> otherwise choose any kernel entry and edit line beginning with linux and >> append the word 'single'. >> > > I did exactly that way, you didn't quote that part of my mail where I > wrote it. > Let me quote now: " I booted into single mode and ran "umount /home" " > I did it before running e2fsck but it complain about "resource is busy". > I checked it, it wasn't mounted and the contents were not available under > /home. > So, what has captured my partition that prevents fsck? > AFAIK, you should never fsck a mounted fs, umount it first... > > There are other ways: rescue mode from fedora dvd, any live >> distribution on usb stick, booting from boot.fedoraproject.org. You may >> need >> to remount root fs: >> mount -o remount,ro / >> > > I wanted to do without burning an extra DVD and waiting some hours > while the DVD is downloaded. Thanks anyway. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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