On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Is there any chance that the XFS check and repair utilities will start
> working on a (read-only) mounted disk someday? xfs_check and xfs_repair now
> complain that the disk is mounted and refuse to do anything. This makes
> using XFS as root fs a bit unpleasant, as a reboot in single user mode or
> even in "emergency" mode (running /bin/sh instead of init) will not help to
> fix any file system problems.
>
> Is there a way to force xfs_repair to work on a read only fs?
xfs_check -f works on readonly filesystems (read/write too, but will
usually report erroneous errors) xfs_repair -n is the same, but its
been said that xfs_repair misses quite a bit in no-write mode (which
is what -n is).
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Ethan Benson
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