[clue-tech] fsck and badblocks

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> If my entire filesystem is mounted on /, can I just do a
> 
> mount -o remount,ro /

That might be bad for things that are trying to write to files (anything 
that is logging).

You can run fsck -fn (-f to force a check even though the fs is marked 
clean, -n to do a read-only check).  This seems to work safely enough. 
I do get errors on a partition that was just checked today but that may 
be because it is ext3 and the journal doesn't get applied with -n.

Dave