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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: best way to recover
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227151958.11077L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802272255.QAA21029@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>

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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



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