Re: 2.0.3x I found something unique...
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:58:34 +0100
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 11:31:27AM +0200, Olaf Titz wrote:
> If _any_ process is stuck and can't get killed, you can't unmount all
> the filesystems it is using, so the need for fsck. Unless that process
> is statically linked, it will have open libraries in /lib at least,
> and most programs open files in /var too.
You can sync though, then the next fsck isn't strictly necessary and you
may be able to avoid it by hand.
-- Jamie
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