On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Does fsck have to run on a MOUNTED filesystem? If so, your answer makes > sense to me: if fsck modifies the on-disk copy of the superblock, it does > not have to unmount and then remount the filesystem, it only need to > reload the superlock for disk.
I think it's more for the case where fsck has to run on a filesystem which is mounted. It's better to fsck unmounted filesystems, but you don't always have that option (say you want to fsck the fs with fsck on it :-) Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
