Re: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble - TUHS

1 May 2003

Hi -

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  From: Carl Lowenstein &lt;cdl(a)mpl.ucsd.edu&gt;
    '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