littleguru wrote:
Hello
I have several questons:
1-when I start mylinux server and it said that it was not shutdown properly , do you want to check ?
but I ran fsck manually before and it shouldn't ask me any more. is there any difference between fsck at startup and the one I ran in maintenance mode, because the server couldnt boot and entered in maintenace mode.
The easiest way to force your computer to do a filecheck is to run the below command as root.
shutdown now -Fr
This will reboot your computer, then force a filecheck.
Dropping into maint. mode could be caused by trying to mount a volume in /etc/fstab as a type that it is not. I believe setting the last two numbers to anything but zeroes will drop you to the shell.
2-In maintenance mode is it necessary to umount the device ?and how can I find that which device is mounted ?
Run the command mount. This will give you an output with the currently mounted filesystems. I unmount the filesystems that I try to check. I believe that you will be prompted to unmount the partition before fscking.
As for 3 and 4, no real suggestions.
3- can I find another software other than fsck to check and solve hardware problem ?
I found knoppix but dont have any experience with that .
4-what is the best way to transfer data from crashed hard to the new one?
fsdump ? or just cp ?I use fedora core one and need some thing that untar or restore every thing
on home directory .
thanks for help
