Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:29:25 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org, danger@rulez.sk Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <20060817192924.GA19758@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060817192129.GA30450@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net> <20060817192129.GA30450@dan.emsphone.com>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: > > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly en= ough > > > > > 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... > > >=20 > > > Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility? > >=20 > > No, because I can't unmount /usr. >=20 > 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. Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE5MOUocfcwTS3JF8RAubRAKCKKL55wLZpyTB73Sb4AHGHuwg7RACgj4Jw lPMo/s+MDbLSDswOshfs0C8= =h7oo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--
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