Re: fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems to disallow fsck access to it. Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it read/write? Not apart from the dreaded

fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems to disallow fsck access to it. Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it read/write? thanks, -- - Alfred Perlstein ___

Re: fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-04 Thread Joe Holden
Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems to disallow fsck access to it. Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it read/write? thanks, If you unmount it first, you should be

Re: fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-04 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:49:47AM +0100, Joe Holden wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems to disallow fsck access to it. Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it