On Jul 10, 11:52pm, Norbert Veber wrote:
> Subject: Re: XFS Issues
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:22:05PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Unmount the filesystem and run xfs_repair -n on the device, then send me
> > the output. You should really be seeing a .. link for that ls output. I
> > have been chasing something which might be related for a few days
> > now.
>
> I just tried booting into single user mode, and running it, but it refuses
> to run even when the filesystem is mounted ro. I cannot unmount it because
> its my root (/) partition. Is there an option to force it to run? I dont
> see why it refuses to especially with the -n option..
>
The userspace code wasn't very clever at detecting a readonly
root filesystem - if you upgrade to the current rpms from the
XFS 1.0.1 release, you should find this problem fixed there.
cheers.
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Nathan
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