On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:11:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > Hello Ceri, > > > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > > > > for it to fail a preen fsck. > > > > > > > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a good > > > > way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to > > > > fail (yanking power also difficult)? "umount -f /usr; reboot" doesn't > > > > seem to work... > > > > > > Is 'fsck -f' not a possibility? > > No, because I can't unmount /usr.
Actually, that does nicely, thanks. I had hoped to avoid editing any startup scripts, but I don't really know why :) Cheers, Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere
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