In message <199909081811.laa88...@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : It is best, of course, to run fsck only on filesystems that have not : been mounted but this cannot be done for the root filesystem for obvious : reasons, hence the read-only mount + fsck + remount R/W.
Back in the Bad Old Days, when this option didn't exist, if fsck changed ANYTHING on /, the system rebooted... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message