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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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
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