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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:19:29 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, danger@rulez.sk, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem
Message-ID:  <20060817191929.GA87132@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net>
References:  <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net>

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:11:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > >=20
> > > Hello Ceri,
> > >=20
> > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enou=
gh
> > > > for it to fail a preen fsck.
> > >=20
> > > > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a g=
ood
> > > > way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to
> > > > fail (yanking power also difficult)?  "umount -f /usr; reboot" does=
n't
> > > > seem to work...
> >=20
> >=20
> > Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility?
>=20
> No, because I can't unmount /usr.

Actually, that does nicely, thanks.  I had hoped to avoid editing any
startup scripts, but I don't really know why :)

Cheers,

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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