On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a > secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. > > I mean, if all system filesystems are OK, how can set up a device with a > custom mount point so that when it's tried to mount at boot time and > fails doesn't cause the system to be in single user mode? > > I know that if in fstab I set the last parameter to "0" checking will > not be made at boot time, but instead what I want is the check to be > run, correct any automatically correctable error, and continue booting > anyway, despite the result of the check.Later a custom script will check > the filesystem and send a mail, for example.
Try this: Set to "noauto" in /etc/fstab, and add a custom script to run at the end of the boot process to check and mount your special device if it's OK, and do whatever additional processing you want if not. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"