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? Booting directly into single mode (from grub) should not lead to running daemons using home. You can check which services/mounts are configured to single. And kill daemons which are run on /home: fuser -m /home Or try to remount. > > 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. Making liveusb stick is a bit easier, it will not be extra thing, and you don't need to download full fedora instalation image. BFO also works fine if your network card supports network boot. -- --Zdenek Pytela, <pytela@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
