On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 13:58 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've hit a snag on upgrading my netbook to F17. Every time I go into
> the upgrade section I get a dialog saying my root volume is dirty and to
> reboot into linux, have it clean the FS and restart the upgrade.
>
> Unfortunately, no matter how many times I've rebooted I keep getting the
> dialog. I'm not really sure where to go from here except to manually
> check the FS, but I can't fix any root volume errors since I have no way
> of unmounting the FS on this machine.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --
>
> Mark Haney
> Software Developer/Consultant
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> markh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux
Create a file in the root directory ("/") named "forcefsck". This will
force fsck to run and clean the file systems when you reboot.
The file contains one line and lists the options that you want to pass
to fsck. I use "-p" since my filesystem is ext3.
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Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM
Founder, See How You Ski
Allman Professional Consulting, Inc., www.allmanpc.com
617-947-4263, Twitter: @allmanpc
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