Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:29:00 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: "Ilia E. Chipitsine" <ilia@cgu.chel.su> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck ? Message-ID: <20000521122900.E96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005212205270.8329-100000@mail.cgu.chel.su>; from ilia@cgu.chel.su on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:09:43PM %2B0600 References: <20000521115902.C96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005212205270.8329-100000@mail.cgu.chel.su>
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On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:09:43PM +0600, Ilia E. Chipitsine wrote: > > > > > > 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. I don't see why you would include the '-p' with '-y.' It seems that all of the special behavior implied by -p is the opposite of that implied by -y. > > > > (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 ? There is 'mount -f,' but like the manpage says, it's dangerous. > > 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. Then it _needs_ a UPS that can tell it to shutdown cleanly when power goes out. There is also the option of mounting most filesystems read-only. That way, they never get corrupted in the first place. I don't know the function of this box, but you could have the root and usr partitions read-only, and then have var writable and possibly some /usr/data or whatever as well. Make it so the system can boot into multi-user from read-only filesystems. Anyway, that's just an idea. I know people set up boxes to run unattended and with limited failure modes. There may be someone out there with a good way to set up such a system. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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