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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>
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Subject: Re: fsck on root
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, 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.
>


Please, wrap your lines at ~70 chars.

You can boot in single user mode and run fsck / while the file system is
mounted read-only.




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