>> if i wanna repair a partition an old slackware boot disk comes in
>> handy :)
> So let me get this straight, If I want to check my file system for
> errors there is no problems, but if I want to fix any errors found
> I have to reboot via a boot disk, and then e2fsck the now unmounted
> drive ?
> If true (makes sense since it is a multitasking environment), then
> this is not so good for my internet gateway, which may have some
> corruption. But hey no use winging about it.
The other alternative is to remount the partition in question as
read-only using the following command...
mount -o remount,ro PART
...where PART is the partition in question. The partition can then be
safely e2fsck'd and then re-remounted as rw by omitting the ",ro" in
the above...
Best wishes from Riley.
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