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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: "Niccolò Belli" <darkbasic@linuxsystems.it>
Cc: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Uncorrectable errors after rebooting with Magic Sysrq Keys
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:58:39 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160415215839.7754f866@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30940bf0-924b-4ad7-a3d8-24b980ba46f4@linuxsystems.it>

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:42:21 +0200
Niccolò Belli <darkbasic@linuxsystems.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> Is it 100% safe to run a btrfs check without --repair?
> Because otherwise I will have to wait for my new external drive to arrive 
> and make a backup first.

In cases like these remember that you can use "blockdev --setro /dev/sdX", to
ensure that any program (even the root user with 'dd') can't write anything
to the block device anymore even if tried.

Use "blockdev --setrw /dev/sdX" after you finished.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-15 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-15  8:21 Uncorrectable errors after rebooting with Magic Sysrq Keys Niccolò Belli
2016-04-15  9:30 ` Qu Wenruo
2016-04-15 15:42   ` Niccolò Belli
2016-04-15 15:45     ` Hugo Mills
2016-04-15 17:28       ` Niccolò Belli
2016-04-15 16:58     ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2016-04-16 10:25       ` Niccolò Belli
2016-04-30 13:11         ` Niccolò Belli

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