Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:47:20 -0600 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FSCKing a RO partition Message-ID: <20061107184720.GA10865@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <200611071201.kA7C1jST044243@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20061106212307.GA75478@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <200611071201.kA7C1jST044243@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:01:45PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Personally, when I enter single-user mode and need to > mount any partition for writing, "fsck -p" is always the > first thing I type. It's hardcoded into my fingers (and > should be for every admin), so there's nothing to remember > either. :-) Not sure I agree 100%. This has bitten me a few times on a fileserver with terabytes of disk space. I don't want to wait for the preen to finish, although moving it to the background is a possibility... often I just want to fix /etc/fstab using vi, so it requires me to "preen" /, /usr, and /var (to prevent the annoying messages). I don't get into a habit of starting a long-running process when I'm in a hurry to get a fileserver back up. Aside from fixing the "mount -u -r /" bug, I guess I would be happy if you could preen a particular file system, e.g. "fsck -p /usr". I'm surprised no one's added this before. Also what would be nice if there was an "-a" option to specify all auto-mounted filesystems, so I could do: "fsck -ya" if I wanted. Maybe I'll look into adding these when I have time. fsck used to be an easier program before background checks were added... -- Rick C. Petty
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