23 Jan
2004
23 Jan
'04
20:39
On Friday 23 January 2004 3:32 pm, Ben Yau wrote:
On Friday 23 January 2004 2:47 pm, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
"Very bad things" can happen if you fsck a mounted filesystem. Use the rescue system.
I've wondered about that. It's obviously true if you make any corrections to the filesystem, and I've seen the warning. But what can go wrong if you fsck a filesystem and leave it undisturbed?
If a filesystem is mounted, it won't have the clean bit on right? Not until it's not live anymore.
Seems correct. But then the question is: what's the harm in marking a filesystem as dirty when in fact it's clean? Paul Abrahams