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 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.
Actually, that does nicely, thanks. I had hoped to avoid editing any
startup scripts, but I don't really know why :)
Cheers,
Ceri
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