Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:33:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM boot time fsck Message-ID: <20021011091253.K1512-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <200210111604.g9BG48429757@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I happened to reboot my server last night without a disk in one of the > > cdrom drives. It caused the startup process to halt, dropping me to a > > shell prompt as it tried to fsck the volume. Wasn't happy proceeding > > until I fed the drive a disk. In my environment this is A Bad Thing; > > there may be a disk in there or not, I need the freaking server to come up > > and start running regardless. > > > > I checked my fstab, and the cdroms are listed thusly: > > > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,auto 0 0 > > /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,auto 0 0 > > > > Looking at the man page, the last column indicates the fsck type, and 0 is > > supposed to mean that the device doesn't need to be checked during > > startup. Am I doing something wrong, or is something broken? > > 4.6.2-STABLE, BTW. > > I think you also want to make it 'noauto' rather than 'auto'. > With the auto, you are telling it to try and mount the device and > since there is no disk in, it can't. Hmm. I thought of that, but realistically wouldn't you WANT your cdroms to be automount for just that reason - they're removable media, for pete's sake. I'm coming from a Solaris background, where this is handled completely differently. I guess I'm looking for the "best practice" method. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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