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Re: How to fsck read-only-mounted root filesystem?

To: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to fsck read-only-mounted root filesystem?
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:02:37 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, linux xfs ml <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3C0F1630.5873C0B6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Simon Matter wrote:
> Dan Hollis schrieb:
> > On 5 Dec 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > It is also not 'install a cdrom', it is boot with a bootable cdrom.
> > This machine doesnt have any cdrom drive, so it is "install a cdrom drive"
> > just to fix the root fs. :-(
> But you have a floppy drive, do you? So why don't you take boot/root
> floppies instead? They are available as well.

No floppy either. I will have to install one. This sucks :-(

> > It was *really* suprising to me that you can't repair a read-only mounted
> > filesystem, I suspect it will be equally suprising to others.
> What is life without surprise? Windwos users are also surprised when
> they learn that we don't have (need) a C: on our computers :-)

Suprised in the respect that ext2 and reiserfs have no such limitation, I
was expecting xfs to be at least as functional and mature.

-Dan
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