Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:55:28 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck! Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627195013.029d4a70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030628004346.GB55502@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost>
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At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the >filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses to work on one. It's a mess. Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if powering down without shutting down is that rare of an occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for gradual "bit rot" in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) --Brett
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