FSCK

[littleguru]

Hello

I have several questons:
1-when I  start mylinux server and it said that it was not shutdown 
properly , do you want to check ?
but I ran fsck manually before and it shouldn't ask me any more. is 
there any difference between fsck at startup and the one I ran in 
maintenance mode, because the server couldnt boot and entered in 
maintenace mode.
2-In maintenance mode is it necessary to umount the device ?and how can 
I find that which device is mounted ?
3- can I find another software other  than fsck  to check and solve 
hardware problem ?
I found knoppix but dont have any experience with that .
4-what is the best way to transfer data from crashed hard to the new one?
fsdump ? or just cp ?I use fedora core one and need some thing that 
untar or restore every thing
on home directory .

thanks for help