Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible? Message-ID: <20020710165513.O7573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
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Hi - I was wondering what steps one can take to make the hard drive as reliable as possible on FreeBSD. By reliable I mean what can I do to ensure that if the power gets flipped off the box will come back up unattended in a usuable state. - Some of the filesystems need to be read/write (/var for instance). Is it worth setting /usr to read-only if nothing ever gets written to it anyway? - How dangerous is setting fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? The man page suggests it can be pretty dangerious, but the alternative is to have to go hook a monitor up to the box and deal with it manually.. - Should I turn softupdates off? I'm not really concerned about performance.. - What else? Thanks all! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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