Eef Hartman wrote:

>>> It is call a "reboot", grin, ...
>> Well, a "remount", I suppose ...
>
> IF the filesystem is one that could have been UNmounted, you could have
> run the debugfs on the UNmounted fs and wouldn't have to worry about
> in-memory caches etc.

Yes, but if I'm going to reboot, I could just as well shutdown processes
using that filesystem, unmount it, do what I need, then remount it. It
would work, though it isn't what I was hoping for.

> A umount/mount, of course, will, but the umount may REwrite some of the
> cache data, so could undo your debugfs modifications.

Right. I would need to unmount before doing any of the recovery I'm
trying to do.

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
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