Re: fsck.xfs on ro mounted disks

[Valentijn Sessink <valentyn+xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:15:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 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

Yes, you're right, my fault: I checked with a "rw" entry in /etc/mtab, which
makes xfs_check think the fs is r/w mounted (as far as I can see).

> 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). 

Ehm, as far as I understand, this will not help me repair a disk as
xfs_repair -n does not repair anything - or does it?

V.