On 2024-12-10, Divan Santana <di...@santanas.co.za> wrote: > Greetings and happy December :) > > I have a 3.5TB ffs mounted at /data which is specified in fstab. > > When there is a power outage this file system corrupts (I'll install > another UPS shortly). > > Is it possible to fsck_ffs a 3.5TB file system from the boot rescue > environment? > > When I've tried before I've got an error like: > > "cannot alloc bytes"
Can you raise ulimit -d? Not sure if login.conf on the ramdisk will allow. > Secondly question, is it possible from the rescue environment to edit > the real /etc/fstab file? Because it would be handy for me in some > cases to do so without booting from the install image. mount the relevant partition (e.g. /dev/sd0a) on /mnt and you can use ed. You may need to create device nodes first (cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV sd0). > Another question, is there a Linux like fstab option of 'nofail' for > OpenBSD? It seems like there isn't, because for me, it would be handy > to specify that for my /data mount. > > For now, I've added this to my rc.local file to work around the issue I > sometimes have. > > set -e > mount 3b3840fcdf524721.c /data > rcctl -f start vmd > rcctl -f start portmap mountd nfsd > rcctl -f start backuppc wwbackuppc nginx > > -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
