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Re: Checking mounted fs

To: "Jan Strohbehn" <j.strohbehn@artstor.de>
Subject: Re: Checking mounted fs
From: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:52:23 -0500
Cc: "linux-xfs" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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Jan Strohbehn wrote:

> My question is, can I run a  "xfs_check /dev/.. || xfs_repair /dev/.."
> before mounting the disk (during a takeover), or will I run into
> additional problems, if the xfs is (accidently) still mounted etc. ??
> (It just happened, that the takeover failed because of a corrupted xfs.)

Both commands will simply fail if the filesystem is mounted.

You could check /proc/mounts first, I suppose, to see what's mounted
before you try to do this?

-Eric

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.

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