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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:54:51 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fsck
Message-ID:  <02012510545108.07381@proxy.pt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020125162235.GP87583@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <OE9lmLFQG101s7hpJm80001a61d@hotmail.com> <20020125162235.GP87583@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Friday 25 January 2002 11:22, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 25), dseeger said:
> > when running fsck -p I get "NO write Access" and then "unexpected
> > incositancies"
> >
> > is this because of other processes running - or do i really have a
> > permission problem
>
> You should only run fsck on unmounted volumes, or read-only volumes in
> single-user mode.  Don't run it after the system has come up.

This question seems to come up rather often.  Should fsck refuse to start
if it's being run on a mounted volume? Possibly with an error like "Please
unmount /dev/ad?s1? before running fsck"?
Or is there a reason why such behaviour would be undesirable?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology technical services
http://www.potentialtech.com

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