Checking the integrity of the file system
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Jul 14 16:10:01 UTC 2006
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Rahul wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Paul Smith wrote:
>>> On 7/14/06, Eric Donkersloot <eric.donkersloot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You could boot the system in single user mode and check the file system
>>>> manually or you could reboot the machine with 'shutdown -rF now'
>>>
>>> Thanks, Eric. I have just run the command 'shutdown -rF now'. How can
>>> I now check whether my file system is not corrupted? The point is that
>>> I do not see the result of 'shutdown -rF now'...
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>> Thats a root only command for starters, and it should have made the machine
>> reboot, during which the fsck on the file systems would have been done,
>> however you may have to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to remove the 'rhgb' from
>> the kernels boot command line before you would see anything because it
>> would otherwise be hid behind a graphic and all you would see is a longer
>> bootup time. rhgb is the work of somebody trying to make it more like a
>> (spit) windows experience. Its a bad idea. We want to KNOW what its doing
>> while booting.
>>
>
> RHGB falls back to text mode on any warnings or error messages including fsck
> process. So your comment is misleading.
And you can always open the message window with a mouse click if you want.
(Can't do *that* with Windows!)
Some of us appreciate a little polish and don't think everything that
provides it exists merely to imitate Windows. Frankly, I've booted
enought times that I do know what its doing, unless it does something
strange--in which case the text window opens. If you feel the need to
watch every boot obsessively, you probably know enough to edit
/etc/grub.conf and make it behave the way you like.
> Rahul
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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