Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:58:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: danger@rulez.sk Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem Message-ID: <200608171858.k7HIw3fP015972@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1704275870.20060817201511@rulez.sk>
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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... Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility? ////jerry > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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