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Bug ID 6365138
Synopsis fsck is a overzealous when checking a mounted read/write filesystem with -n
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory utility:filesystem
Keywords onnv_triage | rtiq_reviewed
Responsible Engineer Sean Wilcox
Reported Against s10 , snv_25
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_32
Fixed In snv_32
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_32) , solaris_10u3(s10u3_02) (Bug ID:2133352) solaris_8(s8patch) (Bug ID:2144978,) solaris_9(s9patch) (Bug ID:2144979,)
Related Bugs 6360505 , 6367948 , 6500492 , 6643343
Submit Date 19-December-2005
Last Update Date 8-December-2006
Description
When fsck is ran on a mounted filesystem that is mounted read/write, the fs is always reported a potentially still having problems, because it isn't really safe to run fsck
on the fs when it is mounted.

Although, when useing the -n flag (which essentially is a read only fsck (no writes are done)) then fsck could consider the fs to be sane once complete.
Work Around
unmount the filesystem and run fsck on the fs.
Comments
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