From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 10:50:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F9C37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614E243F3F for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b143.otenet.gr [212.205.244.151]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1LIoM2O009068; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:50:23 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1LInsNq001911; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:49:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1LInq4h001910; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:49:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:49:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installkernel first? Message-ID: <20030221184952.GC1421@gothmog.gr> References: <1045718989.3e5467cdd1dee@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030220153710.GA19633@fif.office.inext.hu> <1045807067.3e55bfdbd5f75@webmail.adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1045807067.3e55bfdbd5f75@webmail.adam.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-21 16:27, bastill@adam.com.au wrote: > I had taken makeworld.html from the handbook and used links to save > as formatted text prior to printing out the contents. Not being > familiar with single user mode, I didn't realise that only / was > mounted in that mode (so why does the handbook put "fsck -p" as the > FIRST command, before "mount -a" ? ). Because you should never, and I mean NEVER, run fsck on a filesystem that is mounted read-write. All sorts of "interesting" corruption will keep you busy if you run fsck on read-write filesystems :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message