Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:32:04 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forcefsck on booting stage Message-ID: <20080728153204.567bb54c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200807281510.12070.marc.loerner@hob.de> References: <488DB785.3020805@gmail.com> <20080728130057.GA798@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200807281510.12070.marc.loerner@hob.de>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:10:11 +0200 Marc L__rner <marc.loerner@hob.de> wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2008 15:00, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system? > > > > I believe by setting background_fsck="no" in /etc/rc.conf? That's > > the only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing it > > manually. > > Doesn't this only disable background fsck support? > By creating file "/forcefsck" you can force an fsck at next reboot, > because some scripts test for existence. That's in linux AFAIK, but it would be fairly straightforward to modify /etc/rc.d/fsck to get that behaviour though. fsck -f is interactive, so you would want to add the -y option to prevent its hanging waiting for console input.
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