file system with errors

[John O'Loughlin]

hash out the line in /etc/fstab that is mounting that partition on 
/var/spool/mail


then you can log and in and fsck -p it

John

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Buehler wrote:

> RedHat 4.x system.
> I am trying to boot a linux system that has 4 HD's.  3 of them are on in a 
> raid 5 configuration and the other one is the boot drive with the OS on it. 
> When I boot the system, I get the message
> /var/spool/mail contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> The file system in question is the raid and is 500GB in size.  I let it run 
> for several days at boot up but it never came out of the file system check 
> and the hard drive lights stop blinking after only about an hour, give or 
> take.  How can I tell it at boot time to NOT do a file system check like this 
> so that I can get into the system and either run it manually or format the 
> partition again.
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
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