Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: fsck! Message-ID: <20030628023903.GA55857@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627195013.029d4a70@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627165224.03568100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030627195013.029d4a70@localhost>
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--u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:55:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the > >filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. >=20 > Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power > comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no > UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to > fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) >=20 > What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run=20 > fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two > or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses > to work on one. It's a mess. >=20 > Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if > powering down without shutting down is that rare of an=20 > occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for > gradual "bit rot" in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) >=20 > --Brett Please read the documentation; there are rc.conf options for handling unattended installations. Kris --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/P/HWry0BWjoQKURAnigAJwMfI0Lj9BxWPeU67ireD1iu7oyLgCfSXuw qjEFhsAMCPf809F2Zchvnos= =99Tt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--
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