Julian Elischer wrote: > > Well, I suspected that it might not work... but I would disagree that it > > was *obvious* that it would not work. This was before "mount" had been > > run, so / was supposedly mounted (?) read-only. > > I've seen ufs write back the superblock on unmounting a read-only > filesystem (!). it was a few years ago but I wouldn;t be surprised if it > was still true.. > > After you did it on the filesystem. (ran growfs) what did you do next? > the safe answer would be to pull the plug.
"reboot" It seems counter-intuitive that a filesystem mounted "read only" would be modified by the kernel. I'm sure there's some subtlety I'm not aware of though.. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
