Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:14:13 +0900 From: horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net> To: "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem Message-ID: <20040118.181439.044a08dcd0c585e4.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net> In-Reply-To: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> References: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:40:53 +0100 "Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd@tilde.se> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of implications does this have in the long term? > > I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and what harm can cutting the power have on the system? > > I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the boot process? > > Best Regards, Rickard. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If you have / readonly, you cannot make /etc RW since they cannot be separate partitions. (As an exercise, consider a problem how to mount /etc when /etc/fstab isn't mounted.) However, having /var partition separate is quite common and I think is a recommended practice. And, of course, it must be a read/write partition. Now, a dumb question... Are you terminating your machine with halt or shutdown command ? Does your machine cleanly stop ? horio shoichi
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