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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: fsck
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> > Why is it when I run fsck on /dev/wd1se I get a (NO WRITE) (Mounted on
> > /disk2). If I do fsck /dev/wd0a which is mounted /, and doesnt do that.
> > Just wondering, because I also admin a BSDI news server. The news spool
> > kept failing filesystem checks, and would crash within minutes. If I could
> > have fsck'd the filesystem, I probably could have avoided newfs'ing it...
> 
> You should fsck volumes before mounting them.  fsck can't fix broken fs's
> while they're mounted as it would probably cause a kernel panic if someone
> tried to open a file while you were working on it.

Hmm, why didnt I think of that? DOh! Oh well, the news spool could use a
clean start once in a while...