>> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > I just double checked bsd.rd from amd64 snapshot, and it seems that both, >> > bsd.rd from installer and "single mode" has ed which is text editor. >> >> I did see ed was there. But I wasn't sure how to mount the system as >> rw. Because it's mounted at / as ro. I guess I could try mount it >> additionally at /mnt as rw, not sure if that'd work. >> > > mount -u -o rw / ?
-u thank you Kirill. I really should have read the man page here. >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > Let me quote man fsck(8): >> > >> > It is normally used in the script rc(8) during automatic reboot. If >> > no >> > file systems are specified, fsck reads the file fstab(5) to determine >> > which file systems to check and in what order. Only partitions in >> > fstab >> > that are mounted “rw” or “ro” and that have non-zero pass numbers are >> > checked. File systems with pass number 1 (normally just the root file >> > system) are checked one at a time. >> >> >> OK, good point. But if there is a file system listed in fstab with pass >> option >> of 0, it will skip a fsck on boot but it will still attempt to mount the >> file system I think. Therefore it's not quite the same as the Linux mount >> option of nofail, which allows the system to boot normally even if the file >> system is able to mounted on boot. >> > > Yes, but you may add noauto to options to avoid that attempt, let me quote > mount(8): > > -A Causes mount to try to mount all of the file systems listed in > the fstab(5) table except those for which the “noauto” or “net” > options are specified. Thanks, I'll use noauto.
