RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:58:38 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at linux.gr> wrote:

> On 2004-09-07 22:39, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:
> > > Item #8:
> > > 	o you *MUST* do a fsck -p before mount -uw / (note: I always
> > > 	  -uw rather than -u).
> >
> >  why ?
> 
> I remember a post of Kirk McKusick forwarded by someone to one of the
> lists that mentioned why this is necessary.  Some of the filesystem
> metadata and/or superblock information is kept in different places now.
> The mount won't fail if you try it without having run fsck before, but
> disk usage reporting tools like du and df will print wrong information
> until you *do* run the fsck.

I think I remember now, thanks 

Hmm, just figured out I didn't  touch a 4.x for about 2 years now.


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