How to run e2fsck on partitions of internal disks?

[Jack Craig]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor at freemail.hu>wrote:

> 2012-08-29 17:16 keltezéssel, Zdenek Pytela írta:
>
>> 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?
>

AFAIK, you should never fsck a mounted fs, umount it first...


>
>          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.
>
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