Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:19:24 -0700 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:7479 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:19:15 -0700 Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via SMTP id SAA06513 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:25:54 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (kaos@melbourne.sgi.com) Received: from kao2.melbourne.sgi.com (kao2.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.180]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA11586; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:17:52 +1100 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: Daniel Moore cc: William L Jones , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Can any one explain this behavior? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:03:59 +1100." <200009140103.MAA26966@clouds.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:17:52 +1100 Message-ID: <3339.968894272@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-xfs-outgoing On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:03:59 +1100, Daniel Moore wrote: >Actually I was thinking it would be a good idea to make xfs_check and >xfs_repair fail or at least warn before checking a mounted FS... # e2fsck /dev/hda3 e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda3 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)?