[issue1106] hg verify should work on read-only filesystems

Nick Andrew nick at nick-andrew.net
Thu May 1 01:26:46 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:32:06PM -0000, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> First, if my disk is going wonky, I may boot Linux from DVD in rescue mode, and
> poke around at my read-only disks. This is how I actually ran into it.

If your disk is going wonky, do "cp -a" first, and get any data off
which you can. Only then worry about whether it verifies.

Nick.


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