Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > However, the main user of this particular PC is not at all a guru; on 4.10 > I had rc.conf configured such that at bootup all filesystems would be > automatically fixed with: fsck_y_enable="YES". > With 4.10, this always worked nicely, whatever sudden power cut have > happened. > > However, with 5.3, a recent powercut crippled the /usr filesystem such that > X11 hanged. The user of this PC was convinced that FreeBSD was infected by a > virus :(.
I would strongly advise you to teach that user to properly shut down the machine instead of just pressing the power button, thus eliminating the real cause of the problem. (If you're suffering from frequent power outages, then a UPS should be installed.) By the way, you can map a key combination (Ctrl-Alt-Del or something else) to the »halt« or »power-down« functions, using kbdcontrol, so it's very easy and intuitive to shut down the machine properly. See the kbdmap(5) manpage for details. Apart from that, I suggest you simply disable background fsck. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
