From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 22:55:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749DF37B416 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fAE6oSw87110; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:50:28 -0800 From: David Greenman To: James McNaughton Cc: Don Sutter , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fsck problem Message-ID: <20011113225028.A87104@nexus.root.com> References: <002201c169a4$7d92a4c0$13fea8c0@drs> <20011112101439.A77864@nexus.root.com> <863d3i56ak.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <863d3i56ak.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net>; from jtm63@enteract.com on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:24:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >David Greenman 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? Yes, you are so correct. :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message