Re: fsck!

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 06/28/03

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:55:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
    > At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
    >
    > >You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the
    > >filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state.
    >
    > Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power
    > comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no
    > UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to
    > fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.)
    >
    > What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run
    > fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two
    > or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses
    > to work on one. It's a mess.
    >
    > Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if
    > powering down without shutting down is that rare of an
    > occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for
    > gradual "bit rot" in both Windows machines and BSD machines.)
    >
    > --Brett

    Please read the documentation; there are rc.conf options for handling
    unattended installations.

    Kris

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