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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:40:43 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Pascal Giannakakis <capm@gmx.net>
Cc:        chip.wiegand@simrad.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition!
Message-ID:  <20021022204043.GA81781@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <00dd01c27a0a$f1607f90$0200a8c0@capm>
References:  <OFEDA157C0.043064C6-ON88256C5A.006FD5E9-88256C5A.00706A56@simrad.no> <00dd01c27a0a$f1607f90$0200a8c0@capm>

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In the last episode (Oct 22), Pascal Giannakakis said:
> > Howabout answering these questions with 'yes' instead of 'no'? That
> > always works for me. In fact, I have a hard drive on it's last
> > legs, the other day it apparently crashed, I hard-reset the
> > computer, ran fsck -y on that disk and finally after running this
> > about 8 times it finally was marked clean.
> 
> LOL
> 
> There is no prompt to type y or n, and it is the same with fsck -y.
> Sorry for not mentioning this. Meanwhile i got the tip to try...

Dismount the volume before running fsck.  The (NO WRITE) message means
that the filesystem was in use or otherwise read-only.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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