checking a mounted reiserfs filesystem.

magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

hello.

I have a webserver running, and wish to do some checks on /home ( my users partition ) which is hda4.infortunatly it's on a hosted server and I cannot just unmount the filesystem( users would kill me ! ).is there a way I can use reiserfsck --check without unmounting it ? I don t need to correct errors , just to have a report if something goes wrong.

thanks for your help.
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deepthought · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:27 am Post subject:

No. Running fsck.whatever on a mounted filesystem is considered EXTREMELY DANGEROUS (that's how the docs call it). Don't even think about it. Trust me. I tried. Kickban the users for fifteen minutes, and do your job.

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magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

ok,thanks for your advise.
let's kick them !

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professorn · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:29 pm Post subject:

I would like to do the same think but I have it on my workstation but can't kill X, if i press CTRL-ALT-BACKASPACE it just resatrts and GDM start :-/

magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

you should stop/kill gdm before quitting X.
/etc/init.d/gdm stop or killall gdm should be ok.
( I don't remenber if gdm has a init script ).
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deepthought · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:38 pm Post subject:

professorn · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject:

Thx, but I don't see why a reboot would help me? GDM autostarts, so I think i kil gdm first.

Is fsck an internel/external command? Coz i want to check my main filesystem, wich contain /urs/ etc.

pilla · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject:

MrPyro · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject:

Even better

professorn · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject:

A big THX

But humm, htat mean i gonna loose my uptime, NOO

deepthought · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 8:35 am Post subject: