System will most likely run fsck automatically. Actually, if your running Redhat 9, you've probably got ext3 filesystem which does not need to be checked after this happens. It will simply recover the journal. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup at Braille. Uwo. Ca" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: how to fix the file system? > Ok, like an idiot i've turned off my linux computer with out doing shutdown. > My friend did this, and got a root prompt after his file system was shown to > be bad. Assuming next time I try to boot into linux next time, and myne is > found to be bad, is there anything like scan disk that can fix it? Note I'm > runing red hat 9, and i don't want to reinstall. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
