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To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: fsck on a read only partition? 
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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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