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To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc: Don Sutter <drs@suntreeaz.com>,
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Subject: Re: fsck problem
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From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com>
Date: 13 Nov 2001 22:24:02 -0600
In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:14:39 -0800"
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David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:

> 
>    -p is prune mode, which is normally done automatically at startup. My
> guess for the reason that it's failing is that the filesystem that you're
> trying to fsck is already mounted. You can't fsck a mounted filesystem.
> 
> -DG
I thought it was "preen" ... or do I need some prunes? 

jtm

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