Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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 mach

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> > >> What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode, > >> but you apparently want fsck -p to fai

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode, >> but you apparently want fsck -p to fail (which will put you in >> single-user mode)? > > fsck -p failing will drop

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: > > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, b

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > > > > for it to fail a preen fsck. > > > > > >

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:11:42PM +0100, 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 enou

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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,

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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 sin

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > 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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ceri Davies wrote: 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... Edit a file on /usr

Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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; rebo