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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: mount a dirty file system without fsck (was Re: what is fs_clean for?) Date: 8 Oct 1993 21:21:28 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <294lko$bvv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2945gj$i0h@acsc.com> <CELAoG.IDt@flatlin.ka.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <CELAoG.IDt@flatlin.ka.sub.org>, Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org> wrote: >Anyway, I see no reason why one should be able to mount a dirty >filesystem, except if it's mounted read-only. This is exactly what I was going to mention, I have in the past been unable to use fsck because of some major file system damage it would've done, but mounted the fs r/o, backed up the important files, and then let fsck do it's thing, and throw everything and it's brother in lost+found,etc -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu