From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 23:01:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02260 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:01:10 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02182 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:00:16 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28814; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:55:33 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id HAA01838; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:55:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA24319; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:47:37 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503210647.HAA24319@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Filesystem clean flag To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:47:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au In-Reply-To: <199503200927.TAA15395@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Mar 20, 95 07:27:18 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1187 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)