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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Dave Liquorice on July 12, 2003, 10:09:30 PM
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I rather unceremoniously stopped my SME v5.6u4 server. It restarted but by the time the monitor attached to it had warmed up I was just in time to see a prompt along the lines of "press within in 1 second to perform a file system check" needless to say I wasn't quick enough and no fsck was perfomed AFAICT(*).
Now it all seems to be running fine but for peace of mind I'd like to run an fsck. I've tried ctl-x at the spash screen and entering "SME-mitel single", booting from the emergency disc but they both end up mounting the partitions I want to check and the message from fsck, "WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesytem damage." worries me. The installation boot disc just tries to do a fresh install.
Short of pulling the plug again how can I get to a stage where I can "safely" run fsck?
(*) The default of not performing a fsck and having a fairly short timeout seems a bit strange to me. Is ext3 robust enough such that fscks are not required even if you pull the power when the disc is thrashing?
Cheers
Dave.