On Mon October 2 2006 12:59 pm, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > you can run fsck on a read-only partition, it doesn't have to > be unmounted. Reboot into single user mode, and remount each > partition on /dev/sda readonly: > mount -o remount,ro $mountpoint > > and then you can fsck them. Good luck, hope you have backups. Re: backups, no, I don't have of / and /boot - only /home I just did a little more investigating - I opened Kdiskfree and it only showed sda3; sda1 is a small /boot partition and sda2 is swap; I guess Kdiskfree probably wouldn't show swap but, presumably, it's not showing sda1 because it's "Offlne" which I'm guessing means not mounted. Does that make sense? I have been noting a couple of anomalous messages during boot up recently, so maybe this would explain it. Anyhow, presuming my guessing above is correct, if I boot into single user mode and run FSCK on sda1, which is ext2, is there any reason that shouldn't work? How well does fsck actually do with bad sectors - does it attempt to read the data off of them and put it somewhere else? Any experience on the efficacy of fsck would be appreciated - I just rebuilt this machine from the bare drive up due to a stupid mistake last weekend - I'm sort of floored this is all happenning. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
