From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 17: 1: 4 2002 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 02E0337B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A4543E52 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6B010dq007955 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6B010MB007952 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to make FreeBSD's hard drive as reliable as possible? Message-ID: <20020710165513.O7573-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi - I was wondering what steps one can take to make the hard drive as reliable as possible on FreeBSD. By reliable I mean what can I do to ensure that if the power gets flipped off the box will come back up unattended in a usuable state. - Some of the filesystems need to be read/write (/var for instance). Is it worth setting /usr to read-only if nothing ever gets written to it anyway? - How dangerous is setting fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? The man page suggests it can be pretty dangerious, but the alternative is to have to go hook a monitor up to the box and deal with it manually.. - Should I turn softupdates off? I'm not really concerned about performance.. - What else? Thanks all! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message