Subject: Re: fsck_ffs and mount_union
To: David Forbes <david@flossy.u-net.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/20/2001 09:10:26
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:15:16PM +0100, David Forbes wrote:
> 
> ...sounds like the thing I need.  However, I have now run fsck_ffs with -c
> 1, 2 and 3 on the relevant parition to no avail (having booted
> single-user).  Not only does fsck_ffs not tell me that it is increasing
> the level, it yields no difference when trying the union mount.
> Helpfully, man fsck_ffs tells me that I can use dumpfs to find out the
> current level of the file-system...except that this is the /usr partition
> that I'm interested and `which dumpfs` = /usr/sbin/dumpfs.
> 
> 
> Clues greatly appreciated?  If it matters this is a /arm32 machine running
> -current that is probably a couple of months old by now.

You do have 'file-system UNION' in your kernel config right?

-Andrew