Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:53:54 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck and dropping to single luser mode problems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9911160947510.6328-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151541230.53350-100000@continuity.necrosys.net>
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Barkley Vowk wrote: > I'm having a big nightmare with several co-located boxen dropping to > single user mode on a reboot if the filesystems have the slightest > problem, this is a REAL big deal because it means I have to drop > everything and drive across town to clean up the FS and reboot the box. I > was wondering if someone had a patch for the startup or an idea to keep > this from happening? I'm not sure if it would be in my best interest to > just force the box to mount the filesystems, but I can't keep doing this.. > its not a good deal during midterms. I'm not sure if the default behaviour has changed, but in 2.x it seemed to only drop to single user mode if there was a serious problem that the redundancy built into the file system couldn't automatically repair/recover. In fact 'man fsck' discusses this in some detail, now that I look... If it's dropping to single user mode then it's a relatively serious problem that cannot be repaired without some decision, I'm not sure that you would want to try to quietly ignore this - a missing (removed due to file system damage) or corrupted config/executable file could cause some very strange and hard to trace events to happen further down the track. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://www.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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