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To: Mark Miller <joup@bnet.org>
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Subject: Re: retrieving data from a failing drive 
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> Is there any way I can force the FS to be marked clean, or to mount a
> dirty filesystem (possibly in read-only mode)?

Read the mount(8) man page, specifically `-f' and `-r' options.
I hope you have backups!

 - Mike

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