Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:03:04 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem Message-ID: <20040118170304.0ffce138@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> References: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:40:53 +0100 "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In > other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of > implications does this have in the long term? > > I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of > having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and > what harm can cutting the power have on the system? > > I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it > possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the > boot process? Yes, edit fstab and change rw in ro for the fs you want to be mounted read-only. It should speed up the boot and give you greater chances in case of desaster. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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