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To: "Cristiano Deana" <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Turn off rebooting in single-user mode after fail.
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Am 27.07.2009, 12:55 Uhr, schrieb Cristiano Deana  
<cristiano.deana@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Paul P.<kamenka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>> How to turn off automatic reboot in single user mode after power fails  
>> or
>> sudden reset? Do i need to make passin value in fstab equal to zero  
>> just to
>> turn off automatic FSCK fs check?
>
> if i understood correctly:
>
> rc.conf:
> fsck_y_enable="YES"      # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen  
> fails.


This sort of disposed of 8 out of 13 GB on one of my systems after a  
growfs failure, and after a >24 hrs fsck run... I guess that rsync before  
fsck could have recovered quite a lot of such data (I can't tell, as I  
didn't have full image backups).

Probably not fsck's fault, but if there is a major file system corruption,  
it can wreak havoc.

-- 
Matthias Andree