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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Lost 6 Megs of Hard Disk space
Message-ID: <1653@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 91 08:27:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: toaster.1653
References: <1991Jun4.052732.13192@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun4.052732.13192@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
	garyc@robbie.acns.nwu.edu writes:
>        I then login  Root and do the following in the Shell:
>/*****************************************************************************/
>localhost# fsck

Running fsck on a mounted filesystem is a sure-fire way to trash
it.  The only exception is for the root file system in single-
user mode where an immediate reboot-without-sync occurs
immediately thereafter.

					-=EPS=-