fsck fails on /dev/root under SCO (was Re: fsck Recovery From Crashes)

[Jeff Liebermann]

In article <3206 at artcom0.north.de> pf at artcom0.north.de (Peter Funk) writes:
>In <1991Jun02.184143.15566 at virtech.uucp> 

[ good info on fsck deleted]

>In some rather rare situations the file system will end up in a state, 
>where following attempts with 'fsck' will exit during phase 1 without 
>any further error message (only the nonzero exit code indicates an error).
 
>From SCO's sosco support fix xnx124....
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The enclosed Support Level Supplement contains a new /bin/fsck which
solves problems experienced with fsck quitting silently under SCO XENIX
386 Operating System Releases 2.3.0, 2.3.1, or 2.3.3 for AT architecture
machines. It is engineered specifically for these releases of the Operating
System, and should not be installed on a system running a release other
than these.
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