fsck safe in run level 2?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Jul02.124310.7848 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> 	FSCK should not be run on a mounted file system.

Always proscribed, occasionally mandatory.

Once or twice in my life I've had to run fsck on a mounted non-root file
system. A quiescent one, to be sure. Sometimes you just can't unmount
a file system, and you can't risk a reboot just then...

Scarey, and you should reboot and re-fsck to rebuild the free list before
doing any real work on it... but it's possible.

If I never have to do it again, though, that'll still be too soon.
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