On 28/07/07, Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BACKGROUND
> Someone brought me a camera they were having trouble with: winXP
> refused to mount the file system. I tried it on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE,
> "mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt", no problems. I recovered all of their
> photos. I attempted to "u
> > > 1. If I use "umount -f /dev/ad4s1a" to forcefully umount a
> > > file system, does this jeopardize the integrity of said
> > > file system? Like...will it jerk the run out from under
> > > a process in the middle of a disk write, thus leaving a
> > > half written file, or will it wait until t
On 11/06/07, Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
3. Is there any safe way to unconditionally umount a file system, even if a
run-away process is writing to it (as bad of an idea as this is)?
UFS is refreshingly robust (at least in my experience) in
this regard, in that you may end up with a tru
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:17:14PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Couple questions for anyone on the list who has a moment (and the answer to
> > any of these):
> >
> > Objective: I need to kick people off of a storage drive (we'll say
> > /dev/ad4), without
Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Couple questions for anyone on the list who has a moment (and the answer to
> any of these):
>
> Objective: I need to kick people off of a storage drive (we'll say
> /dev/ad4), without corrupting the file system and without bringing the
> entire system down.
