Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: filesystem
Keywords: filesystem, fsck
Message-ID: <681@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 17:29:39 GMT
References: <3@grumbly.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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  If ODT is like Xenix and most UNIX systems you get trouble when you
fsck a mounted filesystem. The usual way past this is to boot from
another device, but there is an alternate solution in Xenix (and
probably ODT) which is to use the -rr option (recover root). This
unmounts the filesystem, cleans it, and remounts it.

  Before doing this you should run "fsck -n" first and be sure that the
filesystem is not badly blown, because if it can't be fixed, or
everything gets blownaway, the remount will fail. I found this out the
hard way, honest.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon