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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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Subject: fsck on a read only partition?
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Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted?

I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems
to disallow fsck access to it. 

Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it
read/write?

thanks,
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- Alfred Perlstein