Re: forcing a fsck of /

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Stephen Adler wrote: 

> Guys, 
> 
> 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. The system booted 
> right up, using the file system journaling to recover the root partition, but 
> I'd like to be for cirtain the file system is OK. I tried booting using the 
> rescue mode of my fc8 dvd, but I wasn't able to dismount /mnt/sysimage, where 
> my root partition was mounted. Any ideas? 

touch /forcefsck 
reboot 

This works on most linux systems I've tried it on in the past. 

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