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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:28:11 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>, "questions@Freebsd.org" <questions@Freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fsck on root
Message-ID:  <20020127232610.2B61D48449@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <001301c1a6aa$187b9d10$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com>

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:43:21 -0500, Christopher J. Umina wrote:

>How can I run fsck with write capabilities on the root filesystem.  The only way I can see of doing it is rebooting the server incorrectly.  When I reboot it wrong it tells me the superblock is incorrect in size.  I need to run it again.

you can type 
"shutdown now"
"umount -a"
"fsck -p"
"mount -a"
"exit"

should do it, you probably can leave out the mount -a, but i've never
tried it.

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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