From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 9:38:43 2003 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 0CAB037B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DD7743F75 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:38:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047922719.dbc225@mired.org) Received: (qmail 45516 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 17:38:39 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 17:38:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15983.28830.191701.793806@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:38 -0600 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "W. J. Williams" , Noel Balansag , Tom Parquette , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load In-Reply-To: <20030312161236.GB5097@gothmog.gr> References: <3E6E775B.8070208@twcny.rr.com> <20030312070705.27076.qmail@web13509.mail.yahoo.com> <20030312161236.GB5097@gothmog.gr> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030312161236.GB5097@gothmog.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas typed: > Nah. It's not a good idea to use "mount -a" before fsck. The safest > thing you can do if you haven't tinkered with the sizes and/or order > of the partitions is to run: > > # fsck -p && mount -u / && mount -va I disagree. If the file systems were dismounted cleanly, then "fsck -p" just verifies that, and does nothing. If they haven't dismounted cleanly, then mount won't mount the file systems. Running "fsck -p" just insures that the file systems will mount - unless they are really badly damaged. You won't hurt anything if you skip the "fsck -p", you just may have to run it then rerun the mount. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message