help checking a ext2 partition

Pajarico · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject: help checking a ext2 partition

After resizing the / partition I wanted to do a e2fsck but it won't let me because while i'm in gentoo the partition is busy. So i get the latest livecd only to see that there is no more ide-disk module so my SATA drive (where my root partition is stored) is not being listed as /dev/hdx, nor /dev/sdx.
I read on this thread that the 2004.2 livecd had that module, but currently is no longer available.

Is not a problem with my drive not being seen. It's listed on BIOS, and both gentoo and windows sees it.

So, it seems that there is no chance with livecd so i was thinking in forcing the periodic check of partitions. The question is how do i tell gentoo to check them, like when they've been mounted more than x times. Is there some key combination to do it?

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forgotten1 · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject:

The sixth field in your /etc/fstab tells fsck whether to check it or not. 0 = don't check.

Pajarico · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:25 pm Post subject:

I had 0 in fstab, changed it to 1 and rebooted. Later changed to 2 and rebooted again. It still doesn't check the filesytem; i mean it does but only checks if the partition was correctly unmounted and displays "/dev/hde5 is clean" or something alike and avoids doing further checking.

What i want is a check like when you've mounted x times (i think every 20 mounts it forces a check) or like when you use the -f option with e2fsck.

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Pajarico · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject:

Is possible to check the root partition ( / ) while gentoo is running? is possible to put the system to an appropiate runlevel and run ext2 tools from the RAM?

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