[wplug] fsck on mounted fs?

[Zachary Uram]

On 4/24/05, William N. Powell <billpwl1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I umounted /mnt/sysimage and ran fsck /dev/hda4 on it and it indicated
> no errors.

Can someone explain if/why it is bad idea to run fsck on a mounted filesystem?
I recall in rescue situation I had to mount the / fs and make it rw
and then ran e2fsck to fix the problems, and it worked fine afer that.
I've heard some say to NEVER fsck a mounted fs.

Zach

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