Re: Help with fsck.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 05:06:00PM +0100, gary.park wrote:
> Thanks to those who helped me sort out how to run FSCK.
> 
> However, after running it I get the following message:
> 
> fsck.vfat: not found
> error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /dev/hda1
> 
> Can anyone suggest what this means and whether the root is salvageable
> with fsck.
> 
> Also if I were to upgrade from Redhat 7.1 to 8 would all my personal
> files be left intact or would the install overwrite everything.
> 
> Many thanks
You don't want to run fsck on a vfat file system. Check you fstab and
the line that refers to the vfat filesystem should end in 0 0
which will keep the system from running fsck on it.
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