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From: NOEL BALANSAG <pongkee@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" ... problem solved.
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hey all,

thanks for all the tips. problem is system won't let
me run fsck -p, but i was able to mount the partition
where my /usr is, so i was able to edit /ect/fstab and
make the system look in the right places.

thanks a lot to all of you. i really appreciate it.



--- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> In <20030312161236.GB5097@gothmog.gr>, Giorgos
> Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> typed:
> > Nah.  It's not a good idea to use "mount -a"
> before fsck.  The safest
> > thing you can do if you haven't tinkered with the
> sizes and/or order
> > of the partitions is to run:
> > 
> > 	# fsck -p && mount -u / && mount -va
> 
> I disagree. If the file systems were dismounted
> cleanly, then "fsck -p"
> just verifies that, and does nothing. If they
> haven't dismounted
> cleanly, then mount won't mount the file systems.
> Running "fsck -p"
> just insures that the file systems will mount -
> unless they are really
> badly damaged. You won't hurt anything if you skip
> the "fsck -p", you
> just may have to run it then rerun the mount.
> 
> 	<mike
> -- 
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>	
> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant,
> email for more information.

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