Fscking a partition mounted Read only...

Mon Oct 16 00:49:08 PDT 2006

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:16:51PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
[fscking a RO partition]
> > 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...

Right: I just tried on a FreeBSD 4.11, and I can fsck a partition
which has just been remounted RO.

Could it be interesting (and quite safe !) to recompile 4.X's fsck
under FreeBSD6 and do the test again on FreeBSD 6 ?

Yvan.

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