From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 15 15:13:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from kerouac.deepwell.com (deepwell.com [209.63.174.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B40A14A01 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:13:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@deepwell.com) Received: (qmail 14954 invoked from network); 16 Nov 1999 00:03:29 -0000 Received: from proxy.dcomm.net (HELO terry) (209.63.175.10) by deepwell.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 1999 00:03:29 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991115150931.036c0f00@mail1.dcomm.net> X-Sender: freebsd@mail.deepwell.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 (demo) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:13:57 -0800 To: "Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Deepwell Internet Subject: Re: fsck and dropping to single luser mode problems. In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991115235303.01cd6f00@computronic.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Both of these are good ideas. Additionally, you can use symbolic links to map /tmp, /etc, /var, Et Cetra to one filesystem if you need to. Often times it becomes a pain-in-the-ass to have seperate slices for each directory off the root. Also, we are using a nice Computone terminal server to do all our serial port consoles. Terminal servers can be had very cheaply now because they cannot be used provide 56k dialin access. At 12:03 AM 11/16/99 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >two ideas from our experience: > >1) Keep the root partition for read-only stuff and use several partitions >for everything else, like this: > >/ >/tmp >/var >... > >2) Use a terminal/console server (like a Cisco 2511) and redirect the >console to the serial port on each servers > >Andras Tudos >C3, Budapest > >At 1999.11.15 23:45, Monday, 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. >> >>Thanks in advance >>Barkley Vowk > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message