fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Fri Sep 10 23:04:26 UTC 2010
On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:27 PM, cronfy wrote:
> 1. Can I be sure my filesystem is consistent?
Reasonably.
> 2. If fsck reports nonexistent errors (and probably will try to fix
> them if asked), isn't it even danger to run fsck on running system?
Running fsck in foreground mode on a mounted filesystem is not recommended.
> 3. How can I check (not fix) filesystems while partitions are mouted
> rw and are under usage?
fsck -B...? See "man fsck_ffs".
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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