On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello Ceri, > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > > for it to fail a preen fsck. > > > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a good > > way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to > > fail (yanking power also difficult)? "umount -f /usr; reboot" doesn't > > seem to work... > > I have been told maybe a week ago that umount -f is badly broken and > might lead to the deadlock, therefore I would avoid using it :)
Sounds ominous!
Ceri
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