[Novalug] Was: Still stuck Now: !?

Dave Greene omniplex@omniplex.net
Thu Aug 8 01:06:38 EDT 2013


If you mount it something could write to it and change items causing other
problems. Fsck should warn you about mounted file systems.
 On Aug 8, 2013 12:54 AM, <cmhowe@patriot.net> wrote:

> Stuart,
>
> I thought I was told to mount it, that otherwise it would be a long,
> tedious process. What's going on.
>
> Charlie
>
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
> >
> >> I get the idea that I have to mount files before I execute fsck. So I
> >> get
> >> that information from fstab, right? So how do I read fstab. I've done so
> >> repeatedly in the past, but I don't remember. ls, maybe?
> >
> > Actually, you must make sure the filesystem is NOT mounted before
> > running fsck on it.
> >
>
>
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