Re: fsck bug

[C.J.Ridd@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk]

Thierry Bousch wrote:
>Chris Ridd writes:
>
>> To digress slightly, I'm concerned that the fsck supplied with minixfs
>> pl9 cannot fsck my first mfs partition after the AES has started (ie
>> it is OK in the mint.cnf file, but otherwise it says "Cannot open
>> drive D:").

I forgot to mention, I'm using Uwe Seimet's HDDRIVER software, but
that may not be important.

>
>This has nothing to do with the AES; fsck attempts to lock the drive
>(using the Dlock() system call) to ensure that the data won't be modified
>while it's running. This will fail if there are any open files on the
>drive; you can check which process(es) have an open file on D: by
>increasing the debug level.

I'll try that. I tried running everything from the C: drive to avoid
the open-files problem; still no joy.

Thanks!

--Chris

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