Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:25:20 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup Message-ID: <41DA7D20.8000704@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050104120204.74997852.gstewart@bonivet.net> References: <41DA6E6C.8030505@yahoo.com> <20050104102627.GA5972@lb.tenfour> <20050104120204.74997852.gstewart@bonivet.net>
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Godwin Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:26:27 +0000, Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> > wrote: > > >>That won't happen, since /usr isn't mounted in single user mode. > > > Even if it were, there are always "Live BSD" CDROMs which should allow you > to boot and then fsck your disk partitions. Thanks for your replies, but apparently I didn't make my point clearly. Let me try again: If the system ends with a bad filesystem, the background check may leave the system unusable after bootup. For a FreeBSD guru this is indeed easy to fix (single user mode, rescue floppies, live CDs bootup etc.). However, the main user of this particular PC is not at all a guru; on 4.10 I had rc.conf configured such that at bootup all filesystems would be automatically fixed with: fsck_y_enable="YES". With 4.10, this always worked nicely, whatever sudden power cut have happened. However, with 5.3, a recent powercut crippled the /usr filesystem such that X11 hanged. The user of this PC was convinced that FreeBSD was infected by a virus :(. An automatic fsck could have fixed the system (I eventually did it manually in single user mode), but the background check left the system broken..... So I want to configure 5.3 similar to former 4.10: a full automatic fix of all filesystems at bootup, in case the system was not properly shutdown. How can I do that? Thanks, Rob.
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