Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:15:11 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <20060817165508.GH89500@submonkey.net> References: <20060817165508.GH89500@submonkey.net>
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Hello Ceri, Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > for it to fail a preen fsck. > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a good > way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to > fail (yanking power also difficult)? "umount -f /usr; reboot" doesn't > seem to work... I have been told maybe a week ago that umount -f is badly broken and might lead to the deadlock, therefore I would avoid using it :) > Ceri -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@rulez.sk
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