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Date:      16 Jan 2000 16:21:20 +0100
From:      Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to clean _definitively_ a filesystem
Message-ID:  <8766wucaa7.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: David Kelly's message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:01:32 -0600"
References:  <200001160201.UAA06019@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes:

> > FBSD complaints about a dirty /tmp filesystem (/mnt is not on a
> > separate fs) so / cannot be mounted R/W and the system boot in single
> > mode. If i do a 'mount -f -orw /' then a ^D, the system goes in normal
> > mode and i can work as usual... Obviously, i've done multiple fsck on
> > /, but the pb remains...
> 
> You said its complaining about a dirty /tmp filesystem. But then you 
> say you have run fsck on /. You have a separate filesystem for /tmp? 
> Then run "fsck -y /tmp". Running fsck on / doesn't recurse the entire 
> system, it does only root.

Oops ! sorry for the typo : you should read "FBSD complaints about a
dirty /mnt filesystem" and, no, /mnt is not a separate fs : hence my
pb...

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