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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:13:00 -0500
From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Subject: Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?
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Leonard Zettel wrote:

>On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote:
>  
>
>>Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to
>>be checking?
>>
>>    
>>
>Duhhhh.... What is the syntax for doing that? 
>  
>

Assuming that's a serious question, a serious example
would be:

    $ fsck /var

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey