From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 2:50:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60ED537B402 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a079.otenet.gr [212.205.215.79]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2JAo2aQ022509; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:50:03 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2JAo2tu004297; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:50:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2JAo2IJ004296; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:50:02 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:50:02 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A quick fsck question In-Reply-To: <22dab8f22de158.22de15822dab8f@mbox.com.au> Message-ID: <20020319124855.W4219-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BSD Freak wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just a quick question. > If I mount a UFS file system as read only (on an IDE HDD) will it still > require an fsck after an unclean shutdown? Probably not, but still it's not a good idea to work with unclean filesystems. Especially if the filesystem has gone through an abnormal shutdown. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message