On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:40:53 +0100 "Rickard Dahlstrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In > other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of > implications does this have in the long term? > > I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of > having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and > what harm can cutting the power have on the system? > > I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it > possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the > boot process? Yes, edit fstab and change rw in ro for the fs you want to be mounted read-only. It should speed up the boot and give you greater chances in case of desaster. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
