[KLUG Members] hd errors

[Jamie McCarthy]

bruce@armintl.com (Bruce Smith) writes:

> 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.

That's usually what I do because it's easiest -- type "linux single"
or "whatever single" at your LILO prompt.  This works better if you
have all your important directories as separate filesystems (/usr,
/var, /tmp, /home), because you can boot into single user mode,
umount everything but /, and then fsck everything.  Your / should be
mounted readonly and you should be able to fsck that too -- but if
everything important is on other filesystems, it probably won't
matter since / will rarely be written to and thus probably won't
have anything broken that fsck needs to fix.
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
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