From: Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 04/03/93 

From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: EXT2FS FAQ (Was Re: A ton of questions)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 20:03:28 GMT

marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
> What is the best way to do an (e2)fsck on the root file system?
>my understanding is that the best way to do it on any file system is unmounted,
>but of course you can't unmount the root file system :)

Of course you can! Just boot using a floppy as the root filesystem,
then run fsck on the unmounted hard disk partition.