Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: fsck safe in run level 2? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 18:02:42 GMT References: <970007@teecs.UUCP> <1990Jul02.124310.7848@virtech.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1990Jul02.124310.7848@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: > FSCK should not be run on a mounted file system. Always proscribed, occasionally mandatory. Once or twice in my life I've had to run fsck on a mounted non-root file system. A quiescent one, to be sure. Sometimes you just can't unmount a file system, and you can't risk a reboot just then... Scarey, and you should reboot and re-fsck to rebuild the free list before doing any real work on it... but it's possible. If I never have to do it again, though, that'll still be too soon. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.