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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:05:06 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem clean flag
Message-ID:  <199503192005.VAA15103@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503191621.IAA02117@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 19, 95 08:20:55 am

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As David Greenman wrote:
> 
>    The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable.

But then, there should also be a way to get around this.  The super
user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only
reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally
damaged disk before newfs'ing it.

Unfortunatley, -f is already used in mount(8).

-- 
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. ;-)



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