According to Colin Wood:
>
>> If it is then you have a couple of choices.  One is to boot up from
>> the install floppies and see if fsck is on them somewhere (I cannot
>> remember if it is or not...) and use this to fsck the partition.  The
>> alternative is to boot to single user, do the fsck and then hit the
>> reset switch - do not shutdown or sync the disks in any way, otherwise
>> you will write the in-core superblock back to disk after fsck has
>> carefully modified the on-disk copy and you will be back where you
>> were when you started.  You need only do this for disks that you
>> cannot fsck in the unmounted state.
>
>Won't reboot -n accomplish the same thing?  (i.e. reboot immediately 
>without syncing first)
>

Yeah but the reset switch saves typing ;-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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