On 7/14/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You could boot the system in single user mode and check the file system >> manually or you could reboot the machine with 'shutdown -rF now' > > Thanks, Eric. I have just run the command 'shutdown -rF now'. How can > I now check whether my file system is not corrupted? The point is that > I do not see the result of 'shutdown -rF now'... > Thats a root only command for starters, and it should have made the machine reboot, during which the fsck on the file systems would have been done, however you may have to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to remove the 'rhgb' from the kernels boot command line before you would see anything because it would otherwise be hid behind a graphic and all you would see is a longer bootup time. rhgb is the work of somebody trying to make it more like a (spit) windows experience. Its a bad idea. We want to KNOW what its doing while booting.
Thanks, Gene and Rick. I did see the checking to the file system, at boot stage, but I did *not* see any message with the result of the checking process. Paul
