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Re: forcing a fsck of /



 the root partition is setup as a software raid 1, will knopix pick this 
up automatically? Is there a way of putting something in the /etc/fstab 
which will force it to fsck? or by going into single user mode? 


Jeffrey Finkelstein wrote: 
> 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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