depends on your partition scheme, if the corrupt partion is not / then
you can just boot single-user and e2fsck it from there...
actually, I haven't done this in a bit, but I think you can even remount
/ read-only in single user mode, and assuming the e2fsck binary itself
isn't corrupt, you can repair it in place.
But yes, you'll have to schedule down time to drop it out of multi-user
mode. (unless you are really brave and want to write to e2fsck it while
it is running :)
Regards,
Steve
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