From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 9:11:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icc.cgu.chel.su (gw.cgu.chel.su [195.54.14.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3006C37B929 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 09:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgu.chel.su) Received: from mail.cgu.chel.su (mail.cgu.chel.su [195.54.14.68]) by icc.cgu.chel.su (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA20209; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:09:34 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgu.chel.su) Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by mail.cgu.chel.su (8.9.3/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA08355; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:09:43 +0600 (ESS) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:09:43 +0600 (ESS) From: "Ilia E. Chipitsine" To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck ? In-Reply-To: <20000521115902.C96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > from man page I read that fsck could be run either with "-p" or "-y|n" > > options. what about "-p -y" ?! > > I haven't tried, but they would seem to be mutually exclusive. The > '-p' option specifies behavior like, I did, I put 'fsck -p -y' into /etc/rc, at least it didn't complain :-) By the time I tried it, filesystems were umounted clearly. > > (2) Don't fsck at all and don't try to mount filesystems that could > be unclean. That could be the option ! What about _mounting_ those unclean partitions ? > > The boot process drops into single user mode because a corrupted > filesystem is a Very Bad Thing. If you are booting a system with > corrupt filesystems, the drop into single user should be the least of > your worries. that PC is supposed to work without a display, without a keyboard, the nearest place where they can find anybody who ever heard about 'fsck' is probably 5km away. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message