Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:39:51 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <44E4D417.6070305@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> 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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Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >>> Hello Ceri, >>> >>> Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: >>> >>>> I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough >>>> 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... >> >> Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility? > > No, because I can't unmount /usr. > > Ceri clri (8) possibly? http://groups.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/b031f4a77ccd26a3/0e8f61e4e58fd4a5?lnk=st&q=group%3A*.freebsd.*+%22terminated+with+1+(non-zero)+status%3A+Cross-device+link%22&rnum=3#0e8f61e4e58fd4a5 look for clri Chris
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