Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971118095716.1445E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971118005926.357A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Why is it when I run fsck on /dev/wd1se I get a (NO WRITE) (Mounted on > /disk2). If I do fsck /dev/wd0a which is mounted /, and doesnt do that. > Just wondering, because I also admin a BSDI news server. The news spool > kept failing filesystem checks, and would crash within minutes. If I could > have fsck'd the filesystem, I probably could have avoided newfs'ing it... You should fsck volumes before mounting them. fsck can't fix broken fs's while they're mounted as it would probably cause a kernel panic if someone tried to open a file while you were working on it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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