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? > > Best Regards, Rickard. > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > If you have / readonly, you cannot make /etc RW since they cannot be separate partitions. (As an exercise, consider a problem how to mount /etc when /etc/fstab isn't mounted.)
However, having /var partition separate is quite common and I think is a recommended practice. And, of course, it must be a read/write partition. Now, a dumb question... Are you terminating your machine with halt or shutdown command ? Does your machine cleanly stop ? horio shoichi _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
