From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 15:53:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB29C37B400 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10004 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 23:25:31 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-48.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.48) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 23:25:31 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B61D48449; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:26:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Christopher J. Umina" , "questions@Freebsd.org" Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:28:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <001301c1a6aa$187b9d10$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fsck on root Message-Id: <20020127232610.2B61D48449@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message