I got a ubuntu livecd with gparted lets see what happens. About using thesystem as root. I only run pacman related commands as root have a user I use for mostly day tasks. This user is *NOT* on sudo, basically cause I like to enforce my self to login as root and think about what I'm doing. Also sudo is cumbersome to use in some instances as buil-in commands are not avaliable. So the only thing I've run as root was the pacman -Syu and followed the arch announces regarding the updates. Nothing bad there I'mho. And the problem I'm facing now has nothing to do with my system usage. Imho either I have a bad sector or something went broken for some instances of the system like mine or the other guy who also reported on the forums. Regards, Victor 2012/6/12 Attila Vangel <vangel.attila@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi, I am not familiar with the problem, but I think the easiest way > (if you are not against graphical tools) is to grab a live cd (or > "live usb dongle") containing gparted (it's not a bad thing to have, > anyway), but I am not an expert at this. > > What really surprises me is that you use your system as root !?! I > would not dare to do that. I tend to add my user to various groops > according to the arch wiki documentation where neeeded, and for the > other commands I think I can safely run as root I alias them to be > 'sudo <command>', and I maintain this list of safe commands in > /etc/sudoers (edited by visudo (you can change the editor of it, just > google it)), so that these commands can be executed without entering > the password all the time... Maybe not the best thing still, but I > guess it's OK with me. > > Regards, > Attila > > 2012/6/12 Victor Silva <vfbsilva@xxxxxxxxx>: > <snip> > > Folks after the last upgrade I can no longer shutdown nor reboot my > machine > > (I'm using it as root). The command simply hangs and nothing happens. > <snip> > > > I was asked to perform a fsck which failed.It reported /dev/sda5 was > > mounted. Is there any proper way I should use to call fsck? I did create > a > > /fsck file on / is there other more appropriate command to do it? > Problably > > you asked for my fstab expecting an error like this right? Would it be > > better to run fsck from a livecd? > > > > regards, > > > > Victor >
