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From: sms@2BSD.COM (Steven M. Schultz)
Subject: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:04:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305010404.h4144UJ18330@moe.2bsd.com> (raw)

Hi -

> From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl at mpl.ucsd.edu>
> > > > 'halt' button?   
> > > [...]
> > 
> > 	I did the the same thing - wondered why I could never get a clean
> > 	file system.   Then I realized what was going on.
> 
> Isn't this really true of Unix systems of any age, when doing fsck
> on a mounted root file system?

	Not really.  Newer systems mount the root filesystem read-only
	while running fsck.   After the filesystem is verified as clean
	then it is upgraded to read-write.

	Older systems such as 2BSD can't run with a read-only root 
	filesystem that I know of.   At least not easily/happily.   Might be 
	possible (the ability to upgrade a ro mount to rw is present) but
	it's never been a priority to look into it ;)

	Cheers,
	Steven Schultz



             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-01  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-01  4:04 Steven M. Schultz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-01 19:14 Michael Sokolov
2003-05-01 13:49 Norman Wilson
2003-05-01  3:30 Carl Lowenstein
2003-05-01  3:48 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-04-30 18:43 Steven M. Schultz
2003-05-01  9:24 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-04-30 16:03 Steven M. Schultz
2003-04-30 15:56 Steven M. Schultz
2003-04-30 16:58 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-04-29 22:48 Steven M. Schultz
2003-04-30  8:24 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-04-30 13:40   ` David Evans
2003-04-30 16:23     ` Jochen Kunz
2003-04-30 16:59       ` David Evans
2003-04-29 21:54 Jochen Kunz

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