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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        danger@rulez.sk
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem
Message-ID:  <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk>

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> 
> 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?

////jerry


> I have been told maybe a week ago that umount -f is badly broken and
> might lead to the deadlock, therefore I would avoid using it :)
> 
> > Ceri
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Daniel                            mailto:danger@rulez.sk
> 
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