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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:57:58 -0500
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fscking a partition mounted Read only...
Message-ID:  <20061013185757.GA88689@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610131416.51379.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20061013074136.GA31459@zen.inc> <20061013080407.GA26522@britannica.bec.de> <20061013174215.GB83555@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <200610131416.51379.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:16:51PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 13:42, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure that's what he tried (hence "remounted readonly").  I've
> > noticed this behavior as well and it is quite frustrating.  If you boot
> > single-user, / will be mounted read-only and you can fsck it.  If you do:
> > 
> > 	mount -u /
> > 	mount -u -r /
> > 
> > You can no longer fsck it.  I've been meaning to track this down and/or
> > file a PR.  I'm pretty sure this used to work just fine in 3.x and 5.x.
> 
> I think it's broken in 5.x as well.  It's fallout from GEOM IIRC, and it is
> annoying.

Grr, I meant 4.x not 5.x, and I thought the problem started about the time
bg fsck was introduced...

-- Rick C. Petty



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