Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:25:05 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <20060817212504.GC19758@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <44E4D417.6070305@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> References: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net> <44E4D417.6070305@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> 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
>=20
> clri (8) possibly?
Too dangerous for my liking :)
I inserted a "fsck -F -y" before the "fsck -F -p" in rc.d/fsck and
rebooted; that got it.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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