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- From: C.J.Ridd@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: fsck bug
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 08:31:05 BST
-
- Thierry Bousch wrote:
- >Chris Ridd writes:
- >
- >> To digress slightly, I'm concerned that the fsck supplied with minixfs
- >> pl9 cannot fsck my first mfs partition after the AES has started (ie
- >> it is OK in the mint.cnf file, but otherwise it says "Cannot open
- >> drive D:").
-
- I forgot to mention, I'm using Uwe Seimet's HDDRIVER software, but
- that may not be important.
-
- >
- >This has nothing to do with the AES; fsck attempts to lock the drive
- >(using the Dlock() system call) to ensure that the data won't be modified
- >while it's running. This will fail if there are any open files on the
- >drive; you can check which process(es) have an open file on D: by
- >increasing the debug level.
-
- I'll try that. I tried running everything from the C: drive to avoid
- the open-files problem; still no joy.
-
- Thanks!
-
- --Chris
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