[TriLUG] HDD Maintenance

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 21:05, Dan Chen wrote:
> *fscks work well, but make sure you're running them on unmounted
> partitions! ;) [That's how I lost _a lot_ of data the first go-round.]

fsck will work work fine on a partition that is mounted read-only.
You just have to guarantee that nothing else is modifying the partition
and having it either unmounted or mounted read-only will 
accomplish that.

Tanner
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