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by E » Thu, 13 Mar 1997 04:00:00

Every time I boot by Linux box (Slackware) when I tell LILO which OS to boot,
if I don't add the 'rw' flag, I get a message telling me that the file system
cannot be verified and that I must mount the root partition as RO in order to
verify the filesystem. The only problem with this is that if I mount it RO, I
can't do anything with it.

How do I get rid of the message telling me to mount it as RO to check the file
system? Should I be checking the file system like it's telling me?

- Erik

by **Alan Cur** » Sat, 15 Mar 1997 04:00:00

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The normal procedure for mounting and fscking filesystems is something like
this (the names of the /etc/rc* files vary between distributions):

1. LILO mounts the root readonly
2. /etc/rc.d/bcheckrc does an fsck on the root filesystem
3. /etc/rc.d/bcheckrc remounts the root filesystem in read-write mode.
The command is
mount -o remount -w -n /
4. If you're not booting into single-user mode, /etc/rc.d/rc.multi fscks the
other filesystems, then mounts them.
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by **B.A.McCau..** » Wed, 19 Mar 1997 04:00:00

>Every time I boot by Linux box (Slackware) when I tell LILO which OS to boot,
>if I don't add the 'rw' flag, I get a message telling me that the file system
>cannot be verified and that I must mount the root partition as RO in order to
>verify the filesystem.

True.

Quote:> The only problem with this is that if I mount it RO, I
>can't do anything with it.

Except check it and then remount it RW.

Quote:>How do I get rid of the message telling me to mount it as RO to check the file>system?

Either take the attempt to check it out of the start up scripts or
mount it RO and fix whatever it preventing it remounting RW (you give
no details so I can't be more specific).

Quote:> Should I be checking the file system like it's telling me?

Yes.

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