Date: 18 Mar 2001 22:41:20 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> Cc: Thomas <tomsoft@Netz-Werker.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: growfs Message-ID: <xzpk85miwlb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Andrea Campi's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:57:49 %2B0100" References: <20010311141337.A510@webcom.it> <20010317110034.62878@Netz-Werker.NET> <20010318165749.A725@webcom.it>
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Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> writes: > Sorry? In single user with a readonly / and nothing else? I would have to be > EXTREMELY unlucky to get any other access while the fs is inconsistent ;-) Just because you dropped to single-user mode (from multi-user, as I recall from your previous mail) doesn't mean your / is ro. Evn if you forced it back to read-only mode (using 'mount -ur /'), it may still have been inconsistent. The only way to get a consistent, read-only file system is to unmount it completely, then remount it read-only; in the case of /, this means *rebooting* into single-user mode. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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