On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:48:57PM +0000, Peter Miller wrote:
> I upgraded to a more current snapshot the other day and after fsck
> ran on the root partition, it asked if i wanted to fsck the other
> partitions. I typed "no", but it ran anyways, causing a failure and
> therefore aborting the install because some disks were missing.
>
> I have 2 usb hard drives in my /etc/fstab. I don't have these drives
> with me all the time, and had them unplugged during my upgrade (so i
> didn't inadvertently install to one of them).
>
> I tried to upgrade a couple times, but i have to comment out my usb
> drives before i can successfully run the upgrade. The upgrade asked
> me whether or not I wanted to fsck the other partitions, so i figure
> it should at least obey my answer.
>
> OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #627: Fri Nov 12 23:00:53 MST 2010
> dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
>
> relevant section of fstab i commented out in order to upgrade
>
> # my drives
> 5dbd5372ca23d268.d /mnt/Dane ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 0 0
> 93b2b19e02be3f39.d /mnt/Cook ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 0 0
>
> --
> Later
> Peter
The installer only asks if you want to do a *forced* fsck ora
non-forced. The fsck is always done for all devices in fstab. The only
differences is whether -y is used or not.
-Otto
