[KLUG Members] hd errors

[Tim Gray]

FYI:  A real convenient (IMO) rescue CD is available from here:

http://www.lnx-bbc.org/

Of course, most distros have varying amounts of recovery utility built into 
the installation media.

--Tim

On Monday 24 May 2004 04:07 pm, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > 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
>
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