From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 15: 4:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3731437B6A9 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00031; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:04:28 -0700 Message-ID: <398B3DEC.2CB7F65D@urx.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:04:28 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disable Reboot FSCK References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Daryl Chance wrote: > > :Is there a way I can disable the FSCK on a reboot? I have a server > :that has a bad motherboard in it (working with FIC on getting a > :replacement). The server will (at least) reboot 2 times a day....maybe > :more depending on load. It's a pain (even though it's a fast server) > :to sit and wait on the FSCK. The disabling would only be temporary > > Yes, it can be done. It's not usually a good idea. In your case, it's just > plain dumb. Mounting a corrupted filesystem is very effective way of > causing a kernel panic. Replace your borken hardware. I had a user error cause a reboot and found that the drive wasn't fully checked out after the boot. The system suddenly developed consistent UDMA errors when it got to the "Mounting root" section of the boot. The errors went away once I booted to single user and cleaned up the file systems. Kent > > David Scheidt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message