Fscking a partition mounted Read only...

[Rick C. Petty]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:16:51PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 13:42, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Grr, I meant 4.x not 5.x, and I thought the problem started about the time
bg fsck was introduced...

-- Rick C. Petty