mount /unmount

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Matthew Seaman on Monday, 04 July 2011:
> On 04/07/2011 15:53, tethys ocean wrote:
> >> If a partition was not unmounted cleanly (eg. the machine crashed, or
> >> > the power was cut off suddenly) then fsck(8) should be used to check and
> >> > fix any problems on the filesystem.  If you've booted into single-user
> >> > mode, then definitely fsck any partitions before trying to mount them.
> >> >
> > *I guess If I can do fsck without unmount partition I can lost all my data
> > isn't it?*
> 
> fsck on an unmounted partition will change on-disk data structures in
> ways that the kernel doesn't expect.  So, yes, one consequence is that
> you can lose or corrupt data.  You probably wouldn't lose everything in
> the partition -- but you would tend to cause corruption predominantly in
> files that are more actively used.
> 
> So don't do that.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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I presume you meant to say "on a mounted partition"...?

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