Zoltan Boszormenyi writes:
How can I run fsck on /home or maybe on / for that matter? I guess booting the Fedora 17 DVD in rescue mode can be used. But how to do it without it? I have used yum to upgrade from F16 (and F14 before) and don't have the DVD at hand.
The easiest way is to boot to single user mode: in grub either choose apropriate menu entry which boots directly into single mode if you have it, otherwise choose any kernel entry and edit line beginning with linux and append the word 'single'.
I did exactly that way, you didn't quote that part of my mail where I wrote it. Let me quote now: " I booted into single mode and ran "umount /home" " I did it before running e2fsck but it complain about "resource is busy". I checked it, it wasn't mounted and the contents were not available under /home. So, what has captured my partition that prevents fsck?
Booting directly into single mode (from grub) should not lead to running daemons using home. You can check which services/mounts are configured to single. And kill daemons which are run on /home: fuser -m /home Or try to remount.
There are other ways: rescue mode from fedora dvd, any live distribution on usb stick, booting from boot.fedoraproject.org. You may need to remount root fs: mount -o remount,ro /
I wanted to do without burning an extra DVD and waiting some hours while the DVD is downloaded. Thanks anyway.
Making liveusb stick is a bit easier, it will not be extra thing, and you don't need to download full fedora instalation image. BFO also works fine if your network card supports network boot.