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title: A tip on using fsck when you are… author: rhnvrm type: post date: 2016-11-07T22:24:09+00:00 url: blog/2016/11/07/a-tip-on-using-fsck-when-you-are/ categories:

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A tip on using fsck when you are stuck in emergency mode. Whenever you are using `fsck -y` and it does not allow you to run because a certain device (say /dev/sdaX) is mounted, it does not mean you can’t run `fsck -y /dev/sdaY`. That is you don’t unmount that device.