From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 08:48:20 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 191C516A469 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9696513C458 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so127498mue for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:48:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eReyRt1rfRkAdio1BGwMkf5RzD4EWRMBZ+bsKLN2U40rv9bvgQvyYfJYciBmDktCgJvqh91ksfsLEVm/Hbxpkmim3/Q3xwdt2Pn6Tr7+HnrYIX5ViFL8LUEJjEZuBcV0XILUO73kIWxq65ZD9GY4PaT209NliFE+OPUQffdy4LU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ACW7e29mlRkmyXlHvINpece/vuxrsBrRcW1nR54UdrR5OycHQUGM6KDJdODmn3IrPT24bRb0LGQbDRUdEM5uv7LXMWKAmnHCLqghacExWgdzxA/m93dXLZROb/G90FjepBis50vCMYnwtaxXWgYEFzBU4XgpRsS7Xkq1kZk5QAc= Received: by 10.82.190.2 with SMTP id n2mr148036buf.1185353298306; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:48:13 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Zbigniew Szalbot" In-Reply-To: <0d77bcdecc99e76aed14af2d95607dee@szalbot.homedns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <0d77bcdecc99e76aed14af2d95607dee@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: fsck to fix HD problem 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:48:20 -0000 On 25/07/07, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > One little question - when I drop into single-user mode, do I need to mount > /usr and /var? > Is mount -a OK? > Generally, no. Or mount read-only, if you must. When doing ugly repairs, fsck would prefer to not have the filesystem changing under it. -- --