On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com> wrote: > it will not even boot if there is only a single slice with root and the rest > on it if the background fsck cannot be run. > > I have to go to real remote locations once in a while where an USP is not of > real help anymore as the USP is not able to charge its battery before the > next power failure comes. It happened there some times that the /usr slice > needs a foreground check. Of course, all can be fixed. > > I cannot imagine that this would still work if / is on the same slice as the > rest of the data.
Why not? / gets mounted read-only, foreground fsck is run on /, system boots... Maybe I'm just not understanding the problem here. I suppose in theory your root filesystem could be so corrupt that it won't even mount read-only, but I've never actually seen that happen except in the case of an outright disk failure. _______________________________________________ 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"
