Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > Joshua Branson, le ven. 25 oct. 2024 22:28:30 -0400, a ecrit: >> Upon rebooting the Hurd in qemu, most of the time, the >> auto fsck worked. BUT sometimes, it failed > > Does that not happen on real hardware too when you have to force it off? > >> and mounted things readonly. > > See the other thread, it's not supposed to let the system start with a > read-only /.
It doesn't happen often. I'll let you know if I spot it happen again. :) >> At the time I did not know that users may need to manually fsck the >> Hurd's filesystem from GNU/Linux with lose2up (is that the right >> command?). > > losetup isnot really the mean to fsck, just the mean to access your > partition. You can also use partx, etc. And then in all cases use fsck. > > Documenting the use of partx to access the Hurd partition would probably > be useful. Not just for fsck, but also to mount it to copy data etc. I'll add that to my todo list! > Samuel > -- Joshua Branson Sent from the Hurd
