Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:23:01 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <443bbv863e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060817192924.GA19758@submonkey.net> (Ceri Davies's message of "Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:29:25 %2B0100") References: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net> <20060817192129.GA30450@dan.emsphone.com> <20060817192924.GA19758@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> 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. Um, okay, then why can't you just reboot into single-user mode and run fsck -y before the filesystem is mounted? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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