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- From: bousch@suntopo.matups.fr (Thierry Bousch)
- Subject: Why fsck doesn't work
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 16:34:30 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <9312170300.AA21077@nyx10.cs.du.edu> from "Stephen Henson" at Dec 16, 93 08:00:38 pm
-
- Hi Steve,
-
- > Odd, why does fsck do that, does something have a file open on that partition?
- > That's the only immediate reason why I can see the Dlock call would fail (the
- > trace output should name the culprit). Alternatively I suppose I could add a
- > flag to fsck to not regard the failure of Dlock() and fatal.
-
- This seems to be the reason. To be able to use 'fsck' on my main Minix
- partition, I must kill syslogd, and replace tcsh by sh, because tcsh
- always keep an open file descriptor to /etc/termcap, which lies on this
- partition.
-
- Thierry.
-