On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:55 pm, you wrote: > Is there a safe way to run fsck in run level 3? The only important thing is, that the partition on which you want to run is mounted read-only. So you can try to remount it: mount -o remount,ro /mountpoint Finished fsck you can mount it writable with mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint Hope this helps Lothar - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html