From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 18 14:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B7437B71A for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:11:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA79203; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:41:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Andrea Campi Cc: Thomas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: growfs References: <20010311141337.A510@webcom.it> <20010317110034.62878@Netz-Werker.NET> <20010318165749.A725@webcom.it> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Mar 2001 22:41:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: Andrea Campi's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:57:49 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrea Campi writes: > Sorry? In single user with a readonly / and nothing else? I would have to be > EXTREMELY unlucky to get any other access while the fs is inconsistent ;-) Just because you dropped to single-user mode (from multi-user, as I recall from your previous mail) doesn't mean your / is ro. Evn if you forced it back to read-only mode (using 'mount -ur /'), it may still have been inconsistent. The only way to get a consistent, read-only file system is to unmount it completely, then remount it read-only; in the case of /, this means *rebooting* into single-user mode. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message