From: Neil W Rickert on
This is what happened when I tried the indicated
command (solaris 8):

# fsck -n /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 IS CURRENTLY MOUNTED READ/WRITE.
CONTINUE? no

Program terminated
#

Well, okay, that is strictly what the man page says. But it makes
the "-n" option rather useless.

From: Andrew Gabriel on
In article <ec2q23$kn0$1(a)usenet.cso.niu.edu>,
Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn(a)cs.niu.edu> writes:
> This is what happened when I tried the indicated
> command (solaris 8):
>
> # fsck -n /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
> /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 IS CURRENTLY MOUNTED READ/WRITE.
> CONTINUE? no
>
> Program terminated
> #
>
> Well, okay, that is strictly what the man page says. But it makes
> the "-n" option rather useless.

Oh dear, looks like someone's badly fscked-up fsck...

--
Andrew Gabriel
From: Steve on
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> In article <ec2q23$kn0$1(a)usenet.cso.niu.edu>,
> Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn(a)cs.niu.edu> writes:
>
>>This is what happened when I tried the indicated
>>command (solaris 8):
>>
>> # fsck -n /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s7
>> /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 IS CURRENTLY MOUNTED READ/WRITE.
>> CONTINUE? no
>>
>> Program terminated
>> #
>>
>>Well, okay, that is strictly what the man page says. But it makes
>>the "-n" option rather useless.
>
>
> Oh dear, looks like someone's badly fscked-up fsck...
>

Try fsck -m, m for maybe....

Steve