What shuld fsck -p report if all is well for a single AD0 disk?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 16 08:00:26 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 16), keith at smmc.qld.edu.au said:
> > In the last episode (Jul 16), keith at smmc.qld.edu.au said:
> >> Hi all
> >> In su mode, I do fsck -p and it tells me the system is NO WRITE. Is
> >> this correct?
> >> If I read the docs rightly...it is?
> >> Signed dazed and confused
> >> Thanks
> >> Keith
> >
> > You can't preen filesystem if they're mounted read/write
>
> HI Dan and thanks,
> So do I read you correct that the "NO WRITE" is what I should see?
> Keith

On a filesystem that's mounted read/write, yes.  If you really need to
fix problems, you will have to dismount the filesystem, or mount it in
readonly mode.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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