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

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Hollis wrote:

> 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.
It's just designed differently.

If You go buy a ferrari and go whine that you can't fit that piano in 
the trunk, then you have to think what's important for you. Fitting the 
piano or driving fast. If repair-on-mounted-filesystem is what you're 
after then you use a filesystem that supports it. If you're after a 
good, fast and stable (and mature) filesystem you stick to xfs. The 
choice is yours.
// Stefan