Date: 17 Aug 2005 14:22:18 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Brian Clark <clark@essociate.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fstab and bad hard drives Message-ID: <44k6ikpgo5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050817012145.7e1fcb5a@bc.oamnet.com> References: <20050817012145.7e1fcb5a@bc.oamnet.com>
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Brian Clark <clark@essociate.com> writes: > I searched and looked through the man pages and was unable to find > any information on this. My question is, is there a way to make > freebsd boot if it has problems mounting a hard drive listed in > fstab? With NFS drives I use 'bg' so the system will continue to > boot if the NFS drive is down or unavailable. I would prefer if a > hard drive on the system was to stop working that the system would > still boot and not hang in single user mode. This is for remote > servers that are about 2 hours away and have had several instances > where an extra drive on the system failed which caused the system to > not reboot correctly... so then i have to drive down manually edit > the fstab, (remove the entry) reboot and all is fine. In an ideal > world, if the system reboots and an extra drive fails to mount then > the system skips it and continues to load without the bad drive. Any > ideas? I was considering noauto and have an rc.d script mount them > but not for sure if it would still hang the system. That last is the approach I would have suggested...
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