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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:23:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem
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Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

Um, okay, then why can't you just reboot into single-user mode and run
fsck -y before the filesystem is mounted?

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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