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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: fsck
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In response to Peter <peterpub2@aboutsupport.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I know it is possible, but not sure how to do it.
> When power goes down and file system gets corrupted and system becomes
> unbootable I need to login to the machine via console and run
> 
> fsck -y /dev/XXXXX
> 
> Any idea how to make Freebsd do that alone so it always boot, but
> without paying penalty of slow reboot in case of clean shutdown and
> restart ?

fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf

See the man page for details.

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