From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 19:39:04 2003 Return-Path: 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 C612D37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED96943FF2 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20DD66B9B; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91C86BB5; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20030628023903.GA55857@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627195013.029d4a70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627195013.029d4a70@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: fsck! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:39:05 -0000 --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:55:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the > >filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. >=20 > 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.) >=20 > What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run=20 > 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. >=20 > Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if > powering down without shutting down is that rare of an=20 > occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for > gradual "bit rot" in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) >=20 > --Brett Please read the documentation; there are rc.conf options for handling unattended installations. Kris --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/P/HWry0BWjoQKURAnigAJwMfI0Lj9BxWPeU67ireD1iu7oyLgCfSXuw qjEFhsAMCPf809F2Zchvnos= =99Tt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--