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Re: forcing a fsck of /



 On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 13:40 -0500, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> I want to force a file system check of my root partition. The reason 
> being, that my system froze, and I had to hit the reset switch. 

Try booting to a liveCD, like Knoppix, make sure the partition is 
unmounted, then run fsck. 


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