RE: [SLUG] /home1 contains file system w/errors - check forced - how do you approach this problem??

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 12:07:02 EDT


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Clay, John wrote:

> > While you're in the root shell you've been dropped into, unmount the
> > /home1 partition, fsck it, and reboot. That is:
> >
> > umount /home1
> > e2fsck -f /dev/whatever
> > reboot

On my system (redhat 7.2, initscripts-6.40-1), it causes a reboot when I
exit the shell, so ^D is sufficient here.

> I'm using ext3. I'm guessing that e3fsck is the command I'm after?

Could be. Else try fsck.ext3 .

> Re: /dev/whatever What is the evidence I'm looking for?

"grep /home1 /etc/fstab" or ("mount | grep /home1" before the umount).
Parentheses for grouping ---^

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