From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 07:31:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BB716A425 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:31:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA69E43D45 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:31:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k2F7VRBx049164; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:31:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:31:27 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chris Message-ID: <20060315073127.GD48583@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3aaaa3a0603142307l5f89dd36n@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0603142307l5f89dd36n@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some questions about fsck, loader.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:31:29 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 15), Chris said: > I tried verbose_loading="YES" in loader.conf and expected the > /var/run/dmesg.boot to be more detailed but there was no change, what > does this switch do if it doesnt change the bootup dmesg output? I think you want boot_verbose="YES". verbose_loading only makes /boot/loader itself more verbose. > In rc.conf I have enabled fsck_y_enable="YES" to allow unattended > fsck fixes after improper shutdown but I have noticed there are some > problems remaining as shown by a read only fsck. Does the above > switch not fix all problems or is it the case the fsck bootup script > only does partial tests? A read-only fsck of a mounted filesystem will never come back clean, since the filesystem's mounted :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com