15 Mar
2005
15 Mar
'05
16:52
Damon, On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:39, Damon Register wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
**Never** fsck a mounted partition.
Ok, I'll bite. Why not? Please don't think that I wish to argue, I just want to learn.
The kernel has much cached file system information in RAM. If fsck changes anything on the disk then, the data the kernel holds no longer matches that on the disk, yet the kernel does not "know" this and will access the device as if the information it holds accurately reflects the state, structure and contents of the drive. Bad consequences are very likely to ensue.
Damon Register
Randall Schulz