Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ceri Davies wrote:
I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a good
way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to
fail (yanking power also difficult)? "umount -f /usr; reboot" doesn't
seem to work...

Edit a file on /usr and leave the editor session going to make sure you've got an open file on that filesystem, then do a "reboot -nq" instead...

--
-Chuck

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