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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Subject: Re: mounting double-ended SCSI disks
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>>I know that, but that's not the point here.  If the filesystem is
>>marked dirty, it could very well be corrupted.  Why am I allowed to
>>mount it (even read-only)?

Because you are root, and root never makes mistakes :-).

>how else would you fsck / if it was dirty ?

Boot from an alternative device to clean up.

Bruce

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