Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ceri Davies wrote: 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... Edit a file on /usr and

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo 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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough for it to fail a preen fsck. I cannot

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode, but you apparently want fsck -p to fail (which will put you in single-user mode)? fsck -p failing will drop back to

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode, but you apparently want fsck -p to fail (which will

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
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

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: 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