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From: "Roy Hooper" <rhooper@toybox.ca>
Subject: Re: misc/35992: /etc/rc has no way to force fsck -y at next boot, corrupt filesystems with soft updates required manual intervention
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The following reply was made to PR misc/35992; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Roy Hooper" <rhooper@toybox.ca>
To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: misc/35992: /etc/rc has no way to force fsck -y at next boot, corrupt filesystems with soft updates required manual intervention
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:17:29 -0500

 fsck_y_enable="YES" might not trigger fsck-y at the next reboot as it relies
 on fsck -p to make it's decision.  In my case, it wasn't triggering fsck -y
 ever at reboot beacuse it thought the filesystem was clean when it was not.
 
 Roy
 --
 Roy Hooper
 Project Manager & Senior UNIX Consultant
 Decisive Technologies Inc.
 
 
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
 To: "Roy Hooper" <rhooper@toybox.ca>
 Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
 Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:49 PM
 Subject: Re: misc/35992: /etc/rc has no way to force fsck -y at next boot,
 corrupt filesystems with soft updates required manual intervention
 
 
 > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:57:48PM -0800, Roy Hooper wrote:
 > [snip]
 >
 > > >Fix:
 > > The solution was to force a fsck -y at boot time by modifying /etc/rc so
 that I could remotely reboot the machine.
 > > Adding the ability to touch a temporary file such as /force-fsck-y would
 be very useful for remote maintenance.
 >
 > I'm confused. What does,
 >
 >   # touch /force-fsck-y
 >
 > Do for you that,
 >
 >   # echo 'fsck_y_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
 >
 > Doesn't?
 > --
 > Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
 >                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
 >
 
 

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