On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:05:42 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: [...] > > Ok, this time I booted it by changing inittab, I got things umounted. > In most cases, fsck returns code 0. But it does so instantly, and there > appears to be no disk action. What is it really checking? > > in the case of: > tmpfs .... /dev/shm > it can;t find tmpfs. > > Thanks again for your help. > > Mike. I found the fchk -f and -c options. I got no failures with -f, and I am now going to run -c -c. Also, I got no errors with memtest86, tests 1-7.