fsck errors on a running system that disappear in single-user

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Fri Mar 11 11:17:32 PST 2005


> 
> Jerry McAllister writes:
> 
> > At least most likely.    There could possibly a real inconsistency,
> > but it would be difficult on a running system to distinguish it 
> > from the artifacts you point out above.
> 
> But a real consistency would presumably persist with an fsck on a system
> in single-user mode, which is (I assume) quiescent, right?

Well, yes, or at least with the file system to be fsck-ed unmounted.

////jerry

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> Anthony
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