Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) with SMTP id VAA19332; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:43:44 +1100 Received: from swift.eng.ox.ac.uk by oxmail.ox.ac.uk. with SMTP (PP) id <08063-0@oxmail.ox.ac.uk.>; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:33:07 +0000 Message-Id: From: rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk (Bob Manners) Subject: Re: fsck tips To: oldunix@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (OldUnix MailingList) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:40:17 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1098 As Warren says, you don't want to sync after an fsck run has made changes to the disk. Simply turn off and reboot. One gotcha Warren omitted was the process /etc/update, which is usually started at boot-time from /etc/rc. This process does a sync every 30 secs automatically. Before fscking a live filesystem, kill update first! If fsck finds anything wrong, shutdown immediately without a sync. Of course, fscking unmounted filesystems is far safer, but not always possible for the root partition ... Cheers, Bob. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Manners Osney Laboratory rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Dept of Engineering Science University of Oxford 01865 288762 Try: http://swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Linux - the only choice This message brought to you from an entirely Microsoft free system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------