fsck in securelevel 2?
Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct access (which is denied by the securelevel) or not? Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck in securelevel 2?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:49:27PM +0200, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct access (which is denied by the securelevel) or not? Of course fsck uses some kind of direct access to the disk. It would not be able to identify and repair problems with the filesystem, if it had to go through the filesystem to access the disk. And to quote the manpage for init(8) (which describes what the various securelevels mean): Setting the security level above 1 too early in the boot sequence can prevent fsck(8) from repairing inconsistent file systems. In the normal boot sequence fsck is run long before the securelevel is raised so this is normally not a problem. I hope the root partition had not been mounted as read/write when you ran fsck, because if you run fsck on partition which is mounted r/w fsck will often (incorrectly) report errors even if there are no problems, and then one can really mess things up. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck in securelevel 2?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:49:27PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct access (which is denied by the securelevel) or not? If by direct access you mean opening the disk for writing, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, fsck does use direct access. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only possible way to write to a disk in securelevel 2 is by mounting it and modifying the filesystem on it. And you can't fix a filesystem without a more direct way of accessing it. Cheers, Gbor Kvesdn - James Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
