Re: fsck -x fabricating inconsistencies?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:

>issues, I decided to play safe (or so I thought) and run fsck -f -n -x /var/db 
>on the NFS-exported (FFSv2, WAPBL, quota2) file systems.

That's forcing fsck (fortunately in read-only mode) on a mounted
and possibly active filesystem ?


>I mentally prepared to newfs and restore from a backup, but running a "real" 
>fsck (in single user mode, after unmounting) showed ZERO issues (on one fs, 
>two trial ones on the other).

That would be my expected outcome. While fsck on the active filesystem
reports errors caused by the transient state of the disk, doing it on
the synced, clean filesystem shows that there is no real error.