If you remount it ro you can't fix anything. I was referring to when the root partition is actually so broken that it won't do the auto fsck. Jan On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 11:32, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On 24 Apr 2004 05:34:38 -0500 > Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If you boot in single user mode you should only get that if you're > > trying to fsck the root partition. AFAIK you kinda have to ignore it in > > that case. I don't know what recourse you have in the case of a hosed > > root partition. I've never had a problem with fsck'ing the root > > partition though (that covers about 16 years of UNIX sysadmin (and 11 of > > Linux)). Of course, it could blow up on me the next time I have to do > > it ;-) Man, you're up early today Ron. > > remount the root partition read only.. see man mount.. i think that should lessen the probability of damage.. after fsck just reboot, do not remount ro.. > > flo > > P.S.: i'm not sure though... > > -- > Fm7 Bbm7 Eb7b9 Abmaj7 Dbmaj7 G7b13b9 Cmaj7 ... >
