Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:08:37 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <FD7AE985-752A-4FB1-B360-E91B1468F776@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060817165508.GH89500@submonkey.net> References: <20060817165508.GH89500@submonkey.net>
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On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ceri Davies wrote: > 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... Edit a file on /usr and leave the editor session going to make sure you've got an open file on that filesystem, then do a "reboot -nq" instead... -- -Chuck
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