[KLUG Members] hd errors

[Bruce Smith]

> And fsck complains to high heavens if I attempt to run it on a mounted 
> filesystem.  

Right, you don't want to do that.

> I'm not sure how to run it on the boot partition without it 
> being mounted.  Can you boot from a floppy or something and access it?

Yes, you can boot from a floppy or a rescue CD and run fsck.
(I'd use a rescue CD personally).  Make sure whatever you use is recent
enough to have ext3 support.

Otherwise, you may be able to boot into single user mode (if you can
boot that far), make sure the partition is mounted read-only, and run
fsck.

 - BS