[ExtractStream] Is e2fsck safe

[Grant Stockly]

At 06:26 PM 3/3/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>After adding tivoftpd and httpd-tt.tcl to my rc.sysinit file my Tivo
>has ceased booting. I've remounted the A disk in my PC and have
>mounted the hdd4 partition and the rc.sysinit file seems to be
>corrupt. Unfortunately it will not let me remove it (I made a
>backup copy of the file beforehand) It keeps giving me a File
>Input/Output error when I try to do anything to the file (cp, mv,
>rm, cat) The file rc.sysinit also only appears when I do a "ls" but
>when I do a "ls -al" its not there. Please help me.

You should alaways mount your root partition read only right after 
modifying it.

I would use the newest version of e2fsck. The one on the tivo dates to 96 
I think. Do you have an up to date linux box?

If you download the mandrake 8.0 cd it should let you boot into expert mode 
with shell. Just pass linux hdX=bswap when it boots up.

just type e2fsck with the right path to the drive. Unmount the partition 
first, just to be safe.

Grant