Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:39:39 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with chflags Message-ID: <20010602143939.A23253@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010602145058.S12788-100000@hades.hell.gr>; from keramidi@otenet.gr on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:53:14PM %2B0300 References: <20010601140537.A24948@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010602145058.S12788-100000@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:53:14PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > If we really need to support people who don't know what to do in single > > user mode, the correct thing is to add instructions to do: > > > > fsck -p > > mount -a > > > > after the reboot into single user mode. > > Yes, that would be marvellous. I know that I need to mount my filesystems > after checking them, and I always do: > > # fsck -p > # mount -u -o rw / > # mount -a > > But these steps are not easy to guess, if one reads /usr/src/UPDATING. > They are implied, but for someone who is booting in single user mode for his > first time, they are also very hard to just come up with :-) One might also need to do swapon -a to use any swapspace. I forgot that once with the result that the installworld stopped half-way through with an out-of-memory error. Granted, that machine only have 8 MB RAM and a modern machine should have enough memory to not need any swap during an installworld but one should be aware of teh potential problem. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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