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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:29:25 +0100
From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said:
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote:
> > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly en=
ough
> > > > > for it to fail a preen fsck.
> > > > >
> > > > > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there
> > > > > a good way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force
> > > > > "fsck -p" to fail (yanking power also difficult)?  "umount -f
> > > > > /usr; reboot" doesn't seem to work...
> > >=20
> > > Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility?
> >=20
> > No, because I can't unmount /usr.
>=20
> What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode,
> but you apparently want fsck -p to fail (which will put you in
> single-user mode)?

fsck -p failing will drop back to fsck -y, which will fix the problem.

Ceri
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That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
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