Problem with hard drive I think. How do I run fsck properly?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:41 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 13:44, barophobia wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I found this in my LogWatch email from last night...
> >
> >  --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------
> >
> > WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
> >    EXT3-fs error (device sdc1): e...:  2 Time(s)
> >
> >  ---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------
> >
> > ...and now my /home partition seems to be mounted read only.
> >
> > Here is /etc/fstab:
> >
> > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/tmp              /tmp                    ext3    noexec,nosuid   1 2
> > LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > LABEL=/usr/local        /usr/local              ext3    defaults        1 2
> > LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > LABEL=SWAP-sdc5         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> 
> If your drive/controller support smart try smartctl and check your drive that 
> way.
> Also run dmesg and look in /var/log/messages for the complete output of your 
> messages.
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afaik - smart doesn't work on scsi drives

Craig