Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:00:16 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering from a power outage Message-ID: <18836.61520.37080.844269@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20090213032150.GB79893@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4994B999.1090307@networktest.com> <20090213004128.GA79335@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4994C29E.3020506@networktest.com> <20090212171653.3782fb82@gom.home> <20090213032150.GB79893@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister writes: > > > do I need to > > > boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how, > > > what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on. > > > > > i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to > > do anything other than listen to the drive whirring away - and we've > > had many power outages! > > It does run in the background, but if you have time, it isn't a > bad idea to run it in single user before bring the whole system > back up in the circumstance of a catastrophic failure like a power > outage. 1) It was my understanding one has to force-mount a dirty filesuystem. IF this sounds like a practice best left to senior Jedi Masters ... it porbably is. 2) I would _never_ let background fsck "take care of things" after a crash, While hovering over the keyboard is a pain, I will find out how badly things are damaged, rather than have boatloads of files mysteriously vanish. Robert Huff
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