On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister 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... > >> > >>Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility? > > > >No, because I can't unmount /usr. > > > >Ceri > > clri (8) possibly?
Too dangerous for my liking :)
I inserted a "fsck -F -y" before the "fsck -F -p" in rc.d/fsck and
rebooted; that got it.
Ceri
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