Why fsck doesn't work

[bousch@suntopo.matups.fr (Thierry Bousch)]

Hi Steve,

> Odd, why does fsck do that, does something have a file open on that partition?
> That's the only immediate reason why I can see the Dlock call would fail (the
> trace output should name the culprit). Alternatively I suppose I could add a
> flag to fsck to not regard the failure of Dlock() and fatal.

This seems to be the reason.  To be able to use 'fsck' on my main Minix
partition, I must kill syslogd, and replace tcsh by sh, because tcsh
always keep an open file descriptor to /etc/termcap, which lies on this
partition. 

Thierry.