e2fsck after hard shutdown

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Sep 5 05:59:50 UTC 2015


On 09/05/2015 07:31 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:

> do you mean that I could run e2fsck from inside the root shell?
Yes.

> I
> guessed that filesystems were already mounted and e2fsck doesn't work on
> mounted filesystems.... I have to study. :-)

Depends, depends on what actually happened/gone wrong.

In most such cases, the filesystems are mounted read-only or not mounted 
at all.

Ralf




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