From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lothar Braun Subject: Re: running fsck in runlevel 3 and single user mode serial access problems Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:19:27 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407150119.27913.mail@lobraun.de> References: <20040714175519.A5782@cougar.aero-vision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040714175519.A5782@cougar.aero-vision.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:55 pm, you wrote: > Is there a safe way to run fsck in run level 3? The only important thing is, that the partition on which you want to run is mounted read-only. So you can try to remount it: mount -o remount,ro /mountpoint Finished fsck you can mount it writable with mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint Hope this helps Lothar