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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 BSD VAX 11/750 does not seem to sync its disks.
Message-ID: <Apr.2.19.00.18.1988.14715@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 00:00:20 GMT
References: <271@usfvax1.UUCP>
Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting
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Keywords: Sync, In core inodes, etc.

Don't run fsck on mounted and busy file systems.  You'll destroy
things in progress.  Generally, one should never run FSCK on a
mounted filesystem at all (except for the root which you have
no choice).  There are several causes of unreferenced files that
are still in use, pipes, and certain programs will create them.
Blowing them away with an FSCK is a BAD idea.

-Ron