Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:11:42 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, danger@rulez.sk Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >=20
> > Hello Ceri,
> >=20
> > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote:
> >=20
> > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough
> > > for it to fail a preen fsck.
> >=20
> > > 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
>=20
> Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility?
No, because I can't unmount /usr.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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