Re: run extensive check on root filesys?

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2002-01-30, SainTiss wrote:

:I'd like to run an extensive check (fsck or e2fsck) on my root filesystem,
:but I can't do that when it's mounted... What's the best way of achieving
:this?

Don't know about the "best" way, but you can do something like this
to force an fs check at boot-time (if you're too lazy to use a
rescue disk):

 # su -l root
 # touch /forcefsck
 # reboot