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  1. 06-27-2010 #1
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    Angry fsck??

    Im not sure if that is the correct command... but

    I had to run that in class today and it KILLED my system... When I try to boot up I get sleeping for ever...

    What happened?
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    fsck command checks File system integrity only. It checks and repair file systems.

    When I try to boot up I get sleeping for ever..
    What do you mean by sleeping? Does it throw any error message?
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    That was the message.
    When I ran it..
    1. it gave the warning
    2. I told it to do it anyway as that was the assignment in class
    3. It told me I had an error and it was going to fix it, it also said that THIS CAN NOT BE DONE IT WILL CAUSE ... as you can see I dont have it up still.
    4. Then it froze, I tried to exit the terminal but it wouldnt let me, I had no control over any aspect of the computer.
    5. The only way to get control was a hard reboot.
    6. When it came back up it said I had to specify an OS then said will sleep forever... or something along those lines.

    I have already reinstalled the system so I can start from scratch. I am just curious why this happened if anyone else has any info on it. I am anal about backups so that is not an issue and it was a good learning experience for me.. BUT lol
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    there is a warning message for a reason, you shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem
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    That explains why mine is the only system it crashed. I was the only one running a mounted version, everyone else is running it virtually.

    What is it about a mounted system that causes it to do that?
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    fsck checks integrity of filesystem and fix errors, if there are any. A mounted partitions might have a lot of open files and running fsck on it might corrupt those files. If mount partition is /, result could be worst.
    A few distros do not allow running fsck on mounted system.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils casper View Post
    fsck checks integrity of filesystem and fix errors, if there are any. A mounted partitions might have a lot of open files and running fsck on it might corrupt those files. If mount partition is /, result could be worst.
    A few distros do not allow running fsck on mounted system.
    Thank you, but why would it NOT crash a virtual machine then? Just trying to understand the problem so I understand why to not do it again.. not that I plan on doing it again anyway.
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    they probably did it with the filesystem unmounted, which is the correct and safe way to run the command
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