have you considered booting to single user mode and manually running fsck?
if you break it lightly first (i.e. power off after it's been idle for
some time) there ought to be something broken enough to make it ask
questions (though admittedly it would probably be able to fix this on boot
up if you let it)
<shrug> or as someone else said, power cycle the breakable one a few times
:)
Vinnie
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:56:34 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: I _WANT_ to damage my file system
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> I want to damage my file system. Not irreparably, but bad enough such that
> it doesn't automatically get fixed when the system is starting up. I know
> there's a level of damage where it stops and makes you run fsck yourself
> and that's what I need to do.
>
> Why?
>
> I'm writing some documentation for some of my customers which describes
> how to use fsck and I want to go through the motions so I can write an
> accurate list of steps. The "problem" is my Linux system is stable and I
> haven't seen or done this procedure since a power failure happened a year
> ago.
>
> I really don't want to clobber my system, just go through the motions of
> putting it back together. I do have a spare machine I can use on which
> nothing/nobody depends. I can clobber it if needed.
>
>
> Bruce Tong
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