Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:12:30 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <20060817191230.GL89500@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> References: <20060817165508.GH89500@submonkey.net> <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> 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
> 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 :)
Sounds ominous!
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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