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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:41:50 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        Barkley Vowk <bvowk@necrosys.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck and dropping to single luser mode problems.
Message-ID:  <19991116094150.B91862@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151541230.53350-100000@continuity.necrosys.net>; from bvowk@necrosys.net on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 03:45:53PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151541230.53350-100000@continuity.necrosys.net>

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On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 03:45:53PM -0700, Barkley Vowk wrote:
> I'm having a big nightmare with several co-located boxen dropping to
> single user mode on a reboot if the filesystems have the slightest
> problem, this is a REAL big deal because it means I have to drop
> everything and drive across town to clean up the FS and reboot the box. I
> was wondering if someone had a patch for the startup or an idea to keep
> this from happening? I'm not sure if it would be in my best interest to
> just force the box to mount the filesystems, but I can't keep doing this..
> its not a good deal during midterms.

Have a look at the PR I submitted about a week ago, conf/14791, this
adds a new option to rc.conf, fsck_unattended, which if enabled changes
the behaviour of fsck in /etc/rc from 'fsck -p' to 'fsck -p || fsck -y'

/Jesper

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Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager      
Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292)

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