[plug] OS chimera revisited

[Steve Grasso]

On Friday 21 December 2001 12:33, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2001 11:14, Steve Grasso wrote:
> > but not while fsck /dev/hda5 is mounted on / as it's likely to be.
> > Running fsck on a mounted file system isn't to be recommended. Better to
> > boot from a floppy to fsck the root partition.
>
> Generally, the root partition is mounted readonly at this point, which is
> OK. The big risk in fsck'ing a live partition is that an app and fsck will
> disagree about what's been written where.
>
>And even then, it's only a risk, not a guarantee of failure.

Which on a desktop might be an acceptable risk to take. Personally, I 
wouldn't fsck a mounted partition on a production machine unless I had no 
alternative. YMMV

Regards,
Steve