On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:58:38 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_linux.gr> wrote: > On 2004-09-07 22:39, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu_at_people.tecnik93.com> wrote: > > > Item #8: > > > o you *MUST* do a fsck -p before mount -uw / (note: I always > > > -uw rather than -u). > > > > why ? > > I remember a post of Kirk McKusick forwarded by someone to one of the > lists that mentioned why this is necessary. Some of the filesystem > metadata and/or superblock information is kept in different places now. > The mount won't fail if you try it without having run fsck before, but > disk usage reporting tools like du and df will print wrong information > until you *do* run the fsck. I think I remember now, thanks Hmm, just figured out I didn't touch a 4.x for about 2 years now. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" 5.3BETA - try `sysctl debug.witness_watch=0` and prepare to fly :-)Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 18:16:03 UTC
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