fsck on mounted system?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 10:43:31 UTC 2012


On 7 September 2012 10:38, oxy <oxyopes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
> almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
> want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

Don't have one big partition. :¬)

At least until Ubuntu adopts swap*files*, you need a separate swap
partition anyway - so if you're creating 2, keep going and separate
/home off as well. There are a number of benefits to doing this,
notably when it comes to dual-booting and upgrading your OS.

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