Fscking a partition mounted Read only...

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 13 October 2006 13:42, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:04:07AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:41:37AM +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> > > 
> > > Later, if root filesystem is remounted readonly, then fsck is called,
> > > it will says "NO WRITE ACCESS".
> > 
> > mount -ur /
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's what he tried (hence "remounted readonly").  I've
> noticed this behavior as well and it is quite frustrating.  If you boot
> single-user, / will be mounted read-only and you can fsck it.  If you do:
> 
> 	mount -u /
> 	mount -u -r /
> 
> You can no longer fsck it.  I've been meaning to track this down and/or
> file a PR.  I'm pretty sure this used to work just fine in 3.x and 5.x.

I think it's broken in 5.x as well.  It's fallout from GEOM IIRC, and it is
annoying.

-- 
John Baldwin