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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:47:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: Filesystem clean flag
Message-ID:  <199503210647.HAA24319@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503200927.TAA15395@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Mar 20, 95 07:27:18 pm

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As Stephen McKay wrote:
> 
> >   Yes, this is why I said "writable" above. I would always want read-only to
> >work. ...but like I just said in a previous message, an option to force the
> >system to mount writable it wouldn't be unreasonable.
> 
> If you don't provide this option, I'll just have to add it.  Certainly a

As i think more about it, option `-f' (perhaps in conjunction with
`-w') could still be used for this.  It's otherwise only used to force
just the opposite (revoke write access when downgrading from r/w to
r/o), but the idea to `force' something does apply as well.  (-f -r ->
force r/o, -f -w -> force r/w)

> BTW, does anyone have any disk-cruising/filesystem-fixing programs that are
> friendlier than fsck?  My 1.1 system went mad and overwrote every root
> directory and their superblocks and a good number of other (apparently) random
> blocks.  I think I upset my tape drive while reading past EOD...

Well, i've just added `fsdb(8)' to the TODO list a few days ago.  D'ya
know somebody who can implement it? ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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