Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ron@BRL-TGR From: Ron NatalieNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 fsck and /etc/rc question Message-ID: <8184@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 15:15:14 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8184 Posted: Sun Feb 10 15:15:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:18:25 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 5 It's not a bug. The sync doesn't kill you. When working on "hotroot" fsck uses the cooked device. The sync is desirable in this instance as it forces the changed superblock, etc. back to the disk. -Ron