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Operating Systems SCO fsck and single user mode Post 302371995 by powwm on Monday 16th of November 2009 10:15:31 PM
Old 11-16-2009
fsck and single user mode

I am working with SCO 5.0.7 and I need to run fsck on the root file system. I understand that filesystems need to be unmounted before running fsck but I cannot unmount the root filesystem because it is always "busy." My question is can I safely run fsck on the root filesystem in single user mode without unmounting it? I need to run fsck because of improper shutdown. The system is automatically booting in single user mode, giving me an inode error, and requesting that I "unmount filesystem and run full fsck."
 

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fsck.xfs(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  fsck.xfs(8)

NAME
fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully SYNOPSIS
fsck.xfs [ filesys ... ] DESCRIPTION
fsck.xfs is called by the generic Linux fsck(8) program at startup to check and repair an XFS filesystem. XFS is a journaling filesystem and performs recovery at mount(8) time if necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status. If you wish to check the consistency of an XFS filesystem, or repair a damaged or corrupt XFS filesystem, see xfs_check(8) and xfs_repair(8). FILES
/etc/fstab. SEE ALSO
fsck(8), fstab(5), xfs(5), xfs_check(8), xfs_repair(8). fsck.xfs(8)
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