Jerry McAllister writes: > > > do I need to > > > boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how, > > > what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on. > > > > > i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to > > do anything other than listen to the drive whirring away - and we've > > had many power outages! > > It does run in the background, but if you have time, it isn't a > bad idea to run it in single user before bring the whole system > back up in the circumstance of a catastrophic failure like a power > outage.
1) It was my understanding one has to force-mount a dirty filesuystem. IF this sounds like a practice best left to senior Jedi Masters ... it porbably is. 2) I would _never_ let background fsck "take care of things" after a crash, While hovering over the keyboard is a pain, I will find out how badly things are damaged, rather than have boatloads of files mysteriously vanish. Robert Huff _______________________________________________ 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"