Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:49:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installkernel first? Message-ID: <20030221184952.GC1421@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <1045807067.3e55bfdbd5f75@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <1045718989.3e5467cdd1dee@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030220153710.GA19633@fif.office.inext.hu> <1045807067.3e55bfdbd5f75@webmail.adam.com.au>
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On 2003-02-21 16:27, bastill@adam.com.au wrote: > I had taken makeworld.html from the handbook and used links to save > as formatted text prior to printing out the contents. Not being > familiar with single user mode, I didn't realise that only / was > mounted in that mode (so why does the handbook put "fsck -p" as the > FIRST command, before "mount -a" ? <sigh>). Because you should never, and I mean NEVER, run fsck on a filesystem that is mounted read-write. All sorts of "interesting" corruption will keep you busy if you run fsck on read-write filesystems :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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