How to create a boot diskette & use of fsck & tune2fs
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:39:15 +0200, Stegozor staggered into the Black Sun and said:
There's no need to run periodic fscks with modern journalled filesystems. The only time you need to fsck something is when Very Bad Things have happened--filesystem corruption due to kernel bugs, or hardware failures, or things like that. And to fsck a mounted filesystem, just mount it ro. Like so:
mount -o remount,ro
Well, BOCHS was really slow the last time I used it, as in a factor of at least 20. Qemu OTOH...
... will be mounted read-only, and you can fsck it.
No, you wouldn't. 3.5" floppies are unreliable and slow. Boot from a rescue CD (there are *tons* of these out there, pick your favorite) and use it for your system rescue needs.
if=-path-to-toms-image.raw of=-dev-fd0u1722 bs=22k . Linux and its attendant utilities are a lot more complex than DOS ever was, so there's no direct equivalent to the old DOS junk. Building a rootboot disk from scratch is a fairly complex thing to do, so most folks use Tom's or similar prebuilt rootboot images.
So burn another copy to a blank CD-R, eh?
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