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Subject: Re: Fscking a partition mounted Read only...
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:49:04AM +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> 
> Right: I just tried on a FreeBSD 4.11, and I can fsck a partition
> which has just been remounted RO.
> 
> Could it be interesting (and quite safe !) to recompile 4.X's fsck
> under FreeBSD6 and do the test again on FreeBSD 6 ?

I doubt you'd get the code to work under 6.x or 5.x even.  I'm not sure if
any GEOM-related stuff ever made it into fsck, but certainly the background
checking code and softupdates changes were introduced about that time.

-- Rick C. Petty