fsck while mounted [was Re: Corruption in 2.1.106]

Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.ucw.cz)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 18:12:07 +0200


Hi!

> Im having fun trying to pin this down for definite as Im using new hardware
> but it definitely appears that 2.1.105 (and + patches) is stablish on my
> hardware. 2.1.106 (with or without patches) is corrupting the file
> system -

Maybe you should say SMP/UP...

Pavel

PS: BTW what about adding -readonly option to fsck? I've now mounted /
readwrite, quiet system, and I, as user pavel, have read access to
/. I'm not able to fsck /dev/hda4, however, since fsck opens /dev/hda4
readwrite.

I know that fscking filesystem while it is mounted read/write is
semi-stupid thing to do, as it could find false-errors, still, maybe,
readonly access should be supported.

(If this is old news, sorry for disturbing you, Theodore).

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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