Fscking a partition mounted Read only...

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 16 12:19:38 PDT 2006


On Monday 16 October 2006 04:15, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:49:04AM +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> [fscking a RO partition]
> > > 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 ?

No, as you've seen. :)

> Is this a bug "somewhere" in the kernel ?

Yes.  GEOM is in the kernel.

-- 
John Baldwin


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