From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 12:44:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FDF16A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:44:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DB4543D31 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:44:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 49669 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 12:43:56 -0000 Received: from 80-218-104-238.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (80.218.104.238) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 12:43:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:45:00 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1549224949.20040923144500@buz.ch> To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20040923074918.7efbcabf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <392342192.20040923104959@buz.ch> <20040923074918.7efbcabf.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: gaml@buz.ch Subject: Re[2]: fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:44:01 -0000 Hello Bill, Thursday, September 23, 2004, 1:49:18 PM, you wrote: > You can't/shouldn't fsck them if they're mounted. Make sure they're > not mounted first. They aren't. I can't mount them because they aren't clean ;-) > Additionally, if your securelevel is high, you can't fsck them no matter > what, as the securelevel will prevent direct access to raw devices. You'll > have to temporarily lower the securelevel in order to fsck them. kern.securelevel: 2 That would have been it, then. Thanks. Best regards, Gabriel