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Date:      Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:20:25 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck on a read only partition? 
Message-ID:  <10793.1183620025@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:24:57 MST." <20070705002457.GZ45894@elvis.mu.org> 

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In message <20070705002457.GZ45894@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>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?

Not apart from the dreaded debug option.

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