Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:48:21 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <CAHhngE3fWXuoOL0_pM=3Hx-YeOg%2BY_MuzoXobG2z22XsnkDuNA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202191226.47196.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <201202190803.39548.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <87wr7j1lds.fsf@oak.localnet> <201202191226.47196.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > it will not even boot if there is only a single slice with root and the r= est on it if the background fsck cannot be run. > > I have to go to real remote locations once in a while where an USP is not= of real help anymore as the USP is not able to charge its battery before t= he next power failure comes. It happened there some times that the /usr sli= ce needs a foreground check. Of course, all can be fixed. > > I cannot imagine that this would still work if / is on the same slice as = the rest of the data. Why not? / gets mounted read-only, foreground fsck is run on /, system boo= ts... Maybe I'm just not understanding the problem here. I suppose in theory your root filesystem could be so corrupt that it won't even mount read-only, but I've never actually seen that happen except in the case of an outright disk failure.
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