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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:32:04 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: forcefsck on booting stage
Message-ID:  <20080728153204.567bb54c@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <200807281510.12070.marc.loerner@hob.de>
References:  <488DB785.3020805@gmail.com> <20080728130057.GA798@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200807281510.12070.marc.loerner@hob.de>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:10:11 +0200
Marc L__rner <marc.loerner@hob.de> wrote:

> On Monday 28 July 2008 15:00, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system?
> >
> > I believe by setting background_fsck="no" in /etc/rc.conf?  That's
> > the only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing it
> > manually.
> 
> Doesn't this only disable background fsck support?
> By creating file "/forcefsck" you can force an fsck at next reboot,
> because some scripts test for existence.

That's in linux AFAIK, but it would be fairly straightforward to
modify /etc/rc.d/fsck to get that behaviour though.

fsck -f is interactive, so you would want to add the -y option to
prevent its hanging waiting for console input.




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