Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:01 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Filesystem clean flag Message-ID: <199503192253.OAA02694@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 21:05:06 %2B0100." <199503192005.VAA15103@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>As David Greenman wrote: >> >> The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable. > >But then, there should also be a way to get around this. The super >user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only >reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally >damaged disk before newfs'ing it. > >Unfortunatley, -f is already used in mount(8). I would go along with this. -DG
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