Re: automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread glynis
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:10:22AM -0700, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > interactive prompting. If you're having to manually fsck everytime and > don't have a UPS with atleast 30 minutes of backup power I *HIGHLY* recommend > a good one IMHO. or, if you don't get a long-life ups, get software (smupsd?

Re: automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
That would be because when you experience a power outage or black-out that is not a good thing for a multi-user OS as files may be cached in memory and not saved to disk at the time of the outage. This leads to an unstable filesystem and if it persists may corrupt it well enuf that it req

automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fasck etc first? Thanks! Umum Wijo