[NTLUG:Discuss] fsck while the system is running

[Bug Hunter]

  If you want to turn your system into swiss cheese, go ahead.

  I would recommend logging in as root, and executing 

telinit 1

 to bring the system to single user mode.  fsck could be run safely at
that point.   after finishing, run

telinit 3

 to get it back to multiuser mode.  If you autoboot into X, I believe it
is telinit 5.



On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, J. Reeves Hall wrote:

> Is it possible to run fsck (and make changes) on an ext2 partition
> without shutting down? I suspect some inode corruption, but I don't want
> to bring the server down.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Reeves