Subject: Re: fsck-ing a drive
To: None <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/19/1998 07:05:26
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:11:42 -0500 (CDT), Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> I ran it on /dev/sd1g
>
> I am I in trouble?
You can be. Writes to raw devices are not buffered whereas writes to
normal devices are. And you want the disk data to reflect the changes
fsck makes to filesystem immediately, or else, you can end up with
some filesystem inconsistency, which you want to fix with fsck in the
first place!
Ken