On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Actually, the whole point of Juan's suggestion was that you _don't_ want
> to fsck a filesystem that is currently mounted. There is always a
> potential problem that fsck will change the on-disk data of the filesystem
> in a way that is not coherent with what the kernel has in-memory, which
> should force a system reboot before continuing (which most initscripts
> don't do). For ext2/ext3 this may be relatively safe (data/metadata don't
> move around much), but reiserfsck cannot (or will not) fsck a mounted
> filesystem at all.
Interesting point. Modulo any existing LVM brokenness, we can do this with
a read-only snapshot and pivot_root afterwards. Alternately, a read-only
/bootsupport or something of the sort which contains *fsck. What we don't
want is initramfs to get big.
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