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Date:      Sat, 8 May 1999 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/11569: Automatically run fsck when the file system is not clean.
Message-ID:  <199905080700.AAA33467@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/11569; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: foxfair@news.ks.edu.tw, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/11569: Automatically run fsck when the file system is not clean.
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 16:56:43 +1000

 >>Description:
 >When the system crashed, and reboot immediately, the file system often
 >states in "not-clean". This patch can run `fsck -y` automatically w/o
 >get into single user mode or type command under comman prompt #.
 
 This is intentional.  fsck -p fixes everything that is safe to fix
 automatically, then exits with a special status (2) to tell /etc/rc that
 the boot should fail.
 
 >>Fix:
 
 >Apply this patch to /usr/src/etc/rc.
 >Obtained from : Taiwan FreeBSD newsgroup.
 >Submitted by :	<unixer.bbs@bbs.ee.ncku.edu.tw>
 >================== Cut Here ============================
 >--- rc.org      Sat May  8 11:58:40 1999
 >+++ rc  Sat May  8 12:00:11 1999
 >@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 >        0)
 >                ;;
 >        2)
 >-               exit 1
 >+               fsck -y; exit 0
 >                ;;
 >        4)
 >                reboot
 >================== Patch End ==========================
 
 If you want to force a check, at least don't ignore errors from fsck -y.
 
 Bruce
 


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