Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:30:57 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <20060817203057.GB19758@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <443bbv863e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060817191142.GK89500@submonkey.net> <20060817192129.GA30450@dan.emsphone.com> <20060817192924.GA19758@submonkey.net> <443bbv863e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> writes:
>=20
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >>=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.
>=20
> Um, okay, then why can't you just reboot into single-user mode and run
> fsck -y before the filesystem is mounted?
For the reasons outlined in my initial post.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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