On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> Does fsck have to run on a MOUNTED filesystem? If so, your answer makes
> sense to me: if fsck modifies the on-disk copy of the superblock, it does
> not have to unmount and then remount the filesystem, it only need to
> reload the superlock for disk.
I think it's more for the case where fsck has to run on a filesystem which
is mounted. It's better to fsck unmounted filesystems, but you don't
always have that option (say you want to fsck the fs with fsck on it :-)
Take care,
Bill
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