On Friday 23 January 2004 22:07, Ben Yau wrote:
Interesting. You're asking if fsck checking the filesystem itself intrusive or not? That's an interesting question. We don't do it because there's no point in it really. It will freak out thinking it's not clean and try to fix it or ask us to fix it. In fact I believe some Solaris versions just won't do it and error out since the FS is mounted . But it is an interesting academic question. I vote that you try it and tell us what happens :D
I'm guessing that it's still a bad idea. Since it expects the filesystem to be unmounted it may do some intrusive checks. Just a guess.
I believe standard practice is to have a file system mounted read-only when fsck is run. See /etc/init.d/boot.localfs