From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 15:22:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23580 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11132; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to recover In-Reply-To: <199802272255.QAA21029@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, George Vagner wrote: > someone said that i should never run fsck on a "live" file system, > what do they mean by "live" and is this true? I.e., a filesystem that is currently mounted and running. Dismount the FS before fsck'ing it. > what is the best way to make sure that all my binaries are in tact and > my kernel is ok? If they run, you're OK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message