On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:33:53 +0200, Jonathan Adams <jonathan.adams at Sun.COM> wrote:
> fsck running against a read-only filesystem is generally not damaging, > but the system sometimes needs to be rebooted afterwards, depending on > the exact change. that is not entirely correct. fsck_ufs(1M) will indeed deal with and fix a R/O mounted file system if it is one of the magic file systems ["/","/usr"] during boot. however it will not apply changes to other R/O mounted file systems (modulo the cleanup of the R/O handling of the new fsck re-write via 6367948 ) --- frankB
