From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 16:25:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6888F16A41A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:1f1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7FA13C458 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from prawn.unsane.co.uk (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lB6GPjav076478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:25:51 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <47582282.2080104@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:25:38 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Ramsdell References: <4758180C.4060208@livedatagroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4758180C.4060208@livedatagroup.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:25:52 -0000 Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in > situatutions like this? > This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? You can also try setting fsck_y_enable="YES" in rc.conf (this will do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) Vince > Thanks, > Randy Ramsdell > Unix Systems Administrator > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"